On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kotton <gkot...@vmware.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/5/14, 8:53 PM, "Russell Bryant" <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote: > > >On 08/05/2014 01:23 PM, Gary Kotton wrote: > >> Ok, thanks for the clarification. This means that it will not be done > >> automagically as it is today the tenant will need to create a Neutron > >> port and then pass that through. > > > >FWIW, that's the direction we've wanted to move in Nova anyway. We'd > >like to get rid of automatic port creation, but can't do that in the > >current stable API. > > Can you elaborate on what you mean here? What are the issues with port > creation? > > Having nova-compute create ports for neutron is problematic if timeouts occur between nova and neutron as you have to garbage collect neutron ports in nova to cleanup (which was the cause of several bug in the cache handing allowing ports to leak into the info_cache in nova). Pushing this out to the tenant is less orchestration nova has to do. > > >-- > >Russell Bryant > > > >_______________________________________________ > >OpenStack-dev mailing list > >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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