Let me write a spec and see what you both think. I have a couple of things we could address here and while it's a bit late it wouldn't be a dramatic thing to fix and it might be acceptable.
On 15 December 2014 at 11:28, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:15:56AM +0100, Ian Wells wrote: > > Hey Ryota, > > > > A better way of describing it would be that the bridge name is, at > present, > > generated in *both* Nova *and* Neutron, and the VIF type semantics define > > how it's calculated. I think you're right that in both cases it would > make > > more sense for Neutron to tell Nova what the connection endpoint was > going > > to be rather than have Nova calculate it independently. I'm not sure > that > > that necessarily requires two blueprints, and you don't have a spec there > > at the moment, which is a problem because the Neutron spec deadline is > upon > > us, but the idea's a good one. (You might get away without a Neutron > spec, > > since the change to Neutron to add the information should be small and > > backward compatible, but that's not something I can make judgement on.) > > Yep, the fact that both Nova & Neutron calculat the bridge name is a > historical accident. Originally Nova did it, because nova-network was > the only solution. Then Neutron did it too, so it matched what Nova > was doing. Clearly if we had Neutron right from the start, then it > would have been Neutrons responsibility todo this. Nothing in Nova > cares what the names are from a functional POV - it just needs to > be told what to use. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ > :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org > :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc > :| > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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