On 13 June 2016 at 14:11, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:08:30PM +0200, Armando M. wrote: > > On 13 June 2016 at 10:35, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:31:13PM -0600, Carl Baldwin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > You may or may not be aware of the vlan-aware-vms effort [1] in > > > > Neutron. If not, there is a spec and a fair number of patches in > > > > progress for this. Essentially, the goal is to allow a VM to connect > > > > to multiple Neutron networks by tagging traffic on a single port with > > > > VLAN tags. > > > > > > > > This effort will have some effect on vif plugging because the > datapath > > > > will include some changes that will effect how vif plugging is done > > > > today. > > > > > > > > The design proposal for trunk ports with OVS adds a new bridge for > > > > each trunk port. This bridge will demux the traffic and then connect > > > > to br-int with patch ports for each of the networks. Rawlin Peters > > > > has some ideas for expanding the vif capability to include this > > > > wiring. > > > > > > > > There is also a proposal for connecting to linux bridges by using > > > > kernel vlan interfaces. > > > > > > > > This effort is pretty important to Neutron in the Newton timeframe. > I > > > > wanted to send this out to start rounding up the reviewers and other > > > > participants we need to see how we can start putting together a plan > > > > for nova integration of this feature (via os-vif?). > > > > > > I've not taken a look at the proposal, but on the timing side of things > > > it is really way to late to start this email thread asking for design > > > input from os-vif or nova. We're way past the spec proposal deadline > > > for Nova in the Newton cycle, so nothing is going to happen until the > > > Ocata cycle no matter what Neutron want in Newton. > > > > > > For sake of clarity, does this mean that the management of the os-vif > > project matches exactly Nova's, e.g. same deadlines and processes apply, > > even though the core team and its release model are different from > Nova's? > > I may have erroneously implied that it wasn't, also from past talks I had > > with johnthetubaguy. > > No, we don't intend to force ourselves to only release at milestones > like nova does. We'll release the os-vif library whenever there is new > functionality in its code that we need to make available to nova/neutron. > This could be as frequently as once every few weeks. > Thanks, but I could get this answer from [1]. I was asking about specs and deadlines. [1] https://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/nova.html > 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 > :| >
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