While looking at some other problems yesterday [1][2] I stumbled across this feature change in Juno [3] which adds a config option "allow_duplicate_networks" to the [neutron] group in nova. The default value is False, but according to the spec [4] neutron allows this and it's just exposing a feature available in neutron via nova when creating an instance (create the instance with 2 ports from the same network).

My question then is why do we have a config option to toggle a feature that is already supported in neutron and is really just turning a failure case into a success case, which is generally considered OK by our API change guidelines [5].

I'm wondering if there is anything about this use case that breaks other NFV use cases, maybe something with SR-IOV / PCI? If not, I plan on pushing a change to deprecate the option in Kilo and remove it in Liberty with the default being to allow the operation.

That's barring getting some tests in Tempest to cover the change which were promised in the spec but never showed up in Juno, or Kilo, so you know, shame shame shame.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1430481
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1430512
[3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/98488/
[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/97716/
[5] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/APIChangeGuidelines#Generally_Considered_OK

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann


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