[openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Boundary between Nova and Neutron involvement in network setup?

2014-12-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there. I've been looking into a tricky point, and hope I can succeed in expressing it clearly here... I believe it is the case, even when using a committedly Neutron-based networking implementation, that Nova is still involved a little bit in the networking setup logic. Specifically I mean

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Boundary between Nova and Neutron involvement in network setup?

2014-12-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Kevin Benton blak...@gmail.com writes: What you are proposing sounds very reasonable. If I understand correctly, the idea is to make Nova just create the TAP device and get it attached to the VM and leave it 'unplugged'. This would work well and might eliminate the need for some drivers. I

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Boundary between Nova and Neutron involvement in network setup?

2014-12-05 Thread Neil Jerram
Ian Wells ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk writes: On 4 December 2014 at 08:00, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Kevin Benton blak...@gmail.com writes: I was actually floating a slightly more radical option than that: the idea that there is a VIF type (VIF_TYPE_NOOP

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] Boundary between Nova and Neutron involvement in network setup?

2014-12-05 Thread Neil Jerram
Kevin Benton blak...@gmail.com writes: I see the difference now. The main concern I see with the NOOP type is that creating the virtual interface could require different logic for certain hypervisors. In that case Neutron would now have to know things about nova and to me it seems like

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] out-of-tree plugin for Mech driver/L2 and vif_driver

2014-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com writes: Failing that though, I could see a way to accomplish a similar thing without a Neutron launched agent. If one of the VIF type binding parameters were the name of a script, we could run that script on plug unplug. So we'd have a finite number of

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Kilo specs review day

2014-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Joe, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com writes: In preparation, I put together a nova-specs dashboard: https://review.openstack.org/141137

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Kilo specs review day

2014-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Radoslav Gerganov rgerga...@vmware.com wrote: On 12/15/2014 12:54 PM, Neil Jerram wrote: My Nova spec (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/130732/) does not appear on this dashboard, even

[openstack-dev] Minimal ML2 mechanism driver after Neutron decomposition change

2014-12-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi all, Following the approval for Neutron vendor code decomposition (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/134680/), I just wanted to comment that it appears to work fine to have an ML2 mechanism driver _entirely_ out of tree, so long as the vendor repository that provides the ML2 mechanism driver

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Core/Vendor code decomposition

2014-12-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Stefano Maffulli stef...@openstack.org writes: On 12/09/2014 04:11 PM, by wrote: [vad] how about the documentation in this case?... bcos it needs some place to document (a short desc and a link to vendor page) or list these kind of out-of-tree plugins/drivers... just to make the user aware

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] out-of-tree plugin for Mech driver/L2 and vif_driver

2015-01-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Maxime Leroy maxime.le...@6wind.com writes: Ok, thank you for the details. I will look how to implement this feature. Hi Maxime, Did you have time yet to start looking at this? My team now has a use case that could be met by using vif_plug_script, so I would be happy to help with writing the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Kilo Release Status - just passed spec freeze

2015-01-13 Thread Neil Jerram
John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com writes: Hi all, With the release of kilo-1 we have frozen the approval of new specs for kilo. This is to make sure we can focus on our agreed kilo priorities: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/priorities/kilo-priorities.html As always, there

[openstack-dev] [nova] Request Spec Freeze Exception for VIF_TYPE_TAP (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/130732/)

2015-01-13 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi all, I'd like to request an exception for my Nova spec adding VIF_TYPE_TAP: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/130732/ (Some history: This spec was previously approved as of Patch Set 7, but with some requests for minor clarifications to the text. When I uploaded Patch Sets 8 and 9, to make

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty specs are now open

2015-03-20 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com writes: Hi Michael, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com writes: For specs approved in Juno or Kilo, there is a fast track approval process for Liberty. The steps to get your spec re-approved are: - Copy your spec from the specs/oldrelease/approved

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty specs are now open

2015-03-20 Thread Neil Jerram
Davanum Srinivas dava...@gmail.com writes: Neil, yes, see example - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/155116/ - you file against the /approved directory Thanks! Neil __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Deprecating the use_namespaces option - Now's the time to speak up!

2015-03-20 Thread Neil Jerram
Assaf Muller amul...@redhat.com writes: Hello everyone, Hi Assaf, The use_namespaces option in the L3 and DHCP Neutron agents controls if you can create multiple routers and DHCP networks managed by a single L3/DHCP agent, or if the agent manages only a single resource. Are the setups

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Deprecating the use_namespaces option - Now's the time to speak up!

2015-03-20 Thread Neil Jerram
Assaf Muller amul...@redhat.com writes: Hello everyone, Hi Assaf, The use_namespaces option in the L3 and DHCP Neutron agents controls if you can create multiple routers and DHCP networks managed by a single L3/DHCP agent, or if the agent manages only a single resource. Are the setups

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [Neutron] allow_overlapping_ips

2015-03-25 Thread Neil Jerram
Kevin Benton blak...@gmail.com writes: This is a nice option for smaller deployments that didn't need the complexity of NAT. From a custom L3 plugin perspective, it also eliminated any single points of failure pretty easily since no NAT state had to be distributed. However, it was

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [Neutron] allow_overlapping_ips

2015-03-25 Thread Neil Jerram
Salvatore Orlando sorla...@nicira.com writes: On 25 March 2015 at 17:36, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Kevin Benton blak...@gmail.com writes: This is a nice option for smaller deployments that didn't need the complexity of NAT. From a custom L3

Re: [openstack-dev] [api][neutron] Best API for generating subnets from pool

2015-03-26 Thread Neil Jerram
Salvatore Orlando sorla...@nicira.com writes: Neutron is adding a new concept of subnet pool. [...] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/kilo/subnet-allocation.html I apologize for asking this question so long after this spec has been proposed and discussed - but what is

[openstack-dev] [nova] Request non-priority feature freeze exception for VIF_TYPE_TAP

2015-02-25 Thread Neil Jerram
Although we are past the non-priority deadline, I have been encouraged to request this late exception for Project Calico's spec and code adding VIF_TYPE_TAP to Nova. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/130732/ (spec) https://review.openstack.org/#/c/146914/ (code) Why might you consider this? - It

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Are routed TAP interfaces (and DHCP for them) in scope for Neutron?

2015-04-21 Thread Neil Jerram
and steer would be appreciated, even if they're more of a high level gut feel, than an exhaustive treatment. Thanks, Neil On 16/04/15 15:12, Neil Jerram wrote: I have a Neutron DHCP agent patch whose purpose is to launch dnsmasq with options such that it works (= provides DHCP service) for TAP

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Deadline for submitting Nova Design Summit Session Proposals

2015-05-01 Thread Neil Jerram
On 01/05/15 11:44, John Garbutt wrote: Hi, In case you were unable to make yesterday's Nova meeting... I was there, but still a bit shy and retiring... :-) If you have a suggestion for a Nova design summit session, please ensure you add it to before the next Nova meeting (7th May):

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Are routed TAP interfaces (and DHCP for them) in scope for Neutron?

2015-05-01 Thread Neil Jerram
interfaces? Thanks, Neil On 16/04/15 15:12, Neil Jerram wrote: I have a Neutron DHCP agent patch whose purpose is to launch dnsmasq with options such that it works (= provides DHCP service) for TAP interfaces that are _not_ bridged to the DHCP interface (ns-XXX

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Jerram
Apologies for commenting so late, but I'm not clear on the concept of bringing all possible backend projects back inside Neutron. I think my question is similar to what Henry and Mathieu are getting at below - viz: We just recently decided to move a lot of vendor-specific ML2 mechanism

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Are routed TAP interfaces (and DHCP for them) in scope for Neutron?

2015-05-07 Thread Neil Jerram
/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-May/036336.html [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/179953/ On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Thanks for your reply, Kevin, and sorry for the delay in following up. On 21/04/15 09:40, Kevin Benton wrote: Is it compatible

[openstack-dev] [neutron] Mechanism drivers and Neutron server forking?

2015-05-07 Thread Neil Jerram
Is there a design for how ML2 mechanism drivers are supposed to cope with the Neutron server forking? What I'm currently seeing, with api_workers = 2, is: - my mechanism driver gets instantiated and initialized, and immediately kicks off some processing that involves communicating over the

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Mechanism drivers and Neutron server forking?

2015-05-13 Thread Neil Jerram
? Thanks, Neil The only time I ever saw anything executed by a child process was actual API requests (e.g. the create_port method). On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Is there a design for how ML2

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Mechanism drivers and Neutron server forking?

2015-05-13 Thread Neil Jerram
more than once, including the function spawned using eventlet. The only time I ever saw anything executed by a child process was actual API requests (e.g. the create_port method). On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer

[openstack-dev] [nova] When is 'Towards one Network Stack: Part 1'?

2015-05-12 Thread Neil Jerram
I was just looking at [1] and planning for 'Towards one Network Stack: Part 2', on Thursday at 5pm. But I don't see the Part 1 of that in the schedule. Has it got lost, and am I missing it somewhere? Thanks, Neil [1]

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] When is 'Towards one Network Stack: Part 1'?

2015-05-12 Thread Neil Jerram
On 12/05/15 12:19, Neil Jerram wrote: I was just looking at [1] and planning for 'Towards one Network Stack: Part 2', on Thursday at 5pm. But I don't see the Part 1 of that in the schedule. Has it got lost, and am I missing it somewhere? Ah, OK, I've found it now under 'Cross Project' here

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron]Fail to communicate new host when the first host for a new instance fails

2015-05-14 Thread Neil Jerram
://review.openstack.org/#/c/163178/ On 05/14/2015 11:29 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: Hi all, this is about a problem I'm seeing with my Neutron ML2 mechanism driver [1]. I'm expecting to see an update_port_postcommit call to signal that the binding:host_id for a port is changing, but I don't see that. The scenario

Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack 2015.1.0 for Debian Sid and Jessie

2015-05-16 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Thomas, On 16/05/15 06:52, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/15/2015 10:37 AM, neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Out of interest, have you done this by re-releasing the Ubuntu packaging? Or have you taken an independent approach? Regards, Neil It's been since Folsom that I've released

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Can we bump MIN_LIBVIRT_VERSION to 1.2.2 in Liberty?

2015-05-15 Thread Neil Jerram
On 14/05/15 20:23, Matt Riedemann wrote: Regarding RHEL, I think this is a safe bet because in Kilo nova dropped python 2.6 support and RHEL 6 doesn't have py26 so you'd be in trouble running kilo+ nova on RHEL 6.x anyway. I'm personally happy to hear this, because it is a pain supporting

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron]Fail to communicate new host when the first host for a new instance fails

2015-05-14 Thread Neil Jerram
On 14/05/15 16:04, Brian Haley wrote: On 05/14/2015 05:29 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: Hi all, this is about a problem I'm seeing with my Neutron ML2 mechanism driver [1]. I'm expecting to see an update_port_postcommit call to signal that the binding:host_id for a port is changing, but I don't see

[openstack-dev] [nova][neutron]Fail to communicate new host when the first host for a new instance fails

2015-05-14 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi all, this is about a problem I'm seeing with my Neutron ML2 mechanism driver [1]. I'm expecting to see an update_port_postcommit call to signal that the binding:host_id for a port is changing, but I don't see that. The scenario is launching a new instance in a cluster with two compute

Re: [openstack-dev] FW: [Neutron] - Joining the team - interested in a Debian Developer and experienced Python and Network programmer?

2015-04-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Matt, I just re-read this thread, including your intro below. You might be interested in what we're doing in the Calico project [1][2], as it uses some of the same idea as the example you describe below, notably importing TAP interface routes into bird and bird6. [1]

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?

2015-04-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi again Joe, (+ list) On 11/04/15 02:00, joehuang wrote: Hi, Neil, See inline comments. Best Regards Chaoyi Huang From: Neil Jerram [neil.jer...@metaswitch.com] Sent: 09 April 2015 23:01 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage

Re: [openstack-dev] Regarding ONOS L3 integration with OpenStack Neutron

2015-04-16 Thread Neil Jerram
On 16/04/15 07:40, Dongfeng (C) wrote: Hi Kyle, I am currently contributing to integrating ONOS with OpenStack Neutron. By ONOS do you mean http://onosproject.org/? http://onosproject.org/ looks very nice, but it's not obvious to me what the integration with OpenStack would be. Perhaps you

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?

2015-04-16 Thread Neil Jerram
) -Original Message- From: Neil Jerram [mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:46 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints? Hi again Joe, (+ list) On 11/04/15 02:00, joehuang wrote: Hi, Neil, See

[openstack-dev] [neutron] Are routed TAP interfaces (and DHCP for them) in scope for Neutron?

2015-04-16 Thread Neil Jerram
I have a Neutron DHCP agent patch whose purpose is to launch dnsmasq with options such that it works (= provides DHCP service) for TAP interfaces that are _not_ bridged to the DHCP interface (ns-XXX). For the sake of being concrete, this involves: - creating the ns-XXX interface as a dummy,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Things to tackle in Liberty

2015-04-17 Thread Neil Jerram
On 17/04/15 17:16, Jay Pipes wrote: On 04/10/2015 11:48 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: What I imagine, though, is that the _source_ of the plugging information could move from Nova to Neutron, so that future plugging-related code changes are a matter for Neutron rather than for Nova. The plugging

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Things to tackle in Liberty

2015-04-17 Thread Neil Jerram
On 17/04/15 17:24, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:16:25PM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote: On 04/10/2015 11:48 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: What I imagine, though, is that the _source_ of the plugging information could move from Nova to Neutron, so that future plugging-related code

[openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?

2015-04-08 Thread Neil Jerram
My team is working on experiments looking at how far the Neutron server will scale, with increasing numbers of compute hosts and VMs. Does anyone have any datapoints on this that they can share? Or any clever hints? I'm already aware of the following ones:

Re: [openstack-dev] Advice on a Neutron ACL kludge

2015-04-09 Thread Neil Jerram
I think that people often mean different things by ACLs, so can you be more precise? Thanks, Neil From: Rich Wellner r...@objenv.com Sent: 09 April 2015 01:29 To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] Advice on a Neutron ACL

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?

2015-04-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Joe, Many thanks for your reply! On 09/04/15 03:34, joehuang wrote: Hi, Neil, From theoretic, Neutron is like a broadcast domain, for example, enforcement of DVR and security group has to touch each regarding host where there is VM of this project resides. Even using SDN controller, the

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Neutron scaling datapoints?

2015-04-09 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Mike, Many thanks for your reply! On 08/04/15 17:56, Mike Spreitzer wrote: Are you looking at scaling the numbers of tenants, Neutron routers, and tenant networks as you scale hosts and guests? I think this is a plausible way to grow. The compartmentalizations that comes with growing

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Things to tackle in Liberty

2015-04-09 Thread Neil Jerram
On 08/04/15 22:07, Michael Still wrote: priorities and specs === I think the current spec process is starting to work well for us, and that priorities was a success. We should continue with specs, but with an attempt to analyse why so many approved specs don’t land [...]

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron[dhcp][dnsmask]: duplicate entries in addn_hosts causing no IP allocation

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Jerram
My team has seen a problem that could be related: in a churn test where VMs are created and terminated at a constant rate - but so that the number of active VMs should remain roughly constant - the size of the host and addn_hosts files keeps increasing. In other words, it appears that the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron[dhcp][dnsmask]: duplicate entries in addn_hosts causing no IP allocation

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Jerram
and the Neutron server. You might like to review that thread and see if it describes any problems analogous to your DHCP one. Regards, Neil On 08/06/15 17:53, Neil Jerram wrote: My team has seen a problem that could be related: in a churn test where VMs are created and terminated at a constant

Re: [openstack-dev] The Nova API in Kilo and Beyond

2015-06-09 Thread Neil Jerram
On 08/06/15 18:22, Jay Pipes wrote: On 06/05/2015 10:56 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: I guess that's why the GNU autoconf/configure system has always advised testing for particular wanted features, instead of looking at versions and then relying on carnal knowledge to know what those versions imply

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron[dhcp][dnsmask]: duplicate entries in addn_hosts causing no IP allocation

2015-06-09 Thread Neil Jerram
-infra.org/ [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mos/+filebug On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:15 AM Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Two further thoughts on this: 1. Another DHCP agent problem that my team noticed

Re: [openstack-dev] [packaging] Adding packaging as an OpenStack project

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Jerram
On 04/06/15 22:54, Thomas Goirand wrote: The init scripts used to be hard to maintain because they were many, but since Debian Ubuntu are using automatic generation out of a tiny template (with sysv-rc, systemd and upstart all supported), this is a problem solved. Ooh, that sounds like

[openstack-dev] [packaging] Source RPMs for RDO Kilo?

2015-06-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Where are the source RPMs that correspond to the binary RPMs at https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-kilo/el7/ ? I guess that https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-kilo/testing/source/ might be quite close - but the 'testing' in this URL suggests that

Re: [openstack-dev] [packaging] Source RPMs for RDO Kilo?

2015-06-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Many thanks, Haïkel, that looks like the information that my team needed. Neil On 03/06/15 11:18, Haïkel wrote: Hi Neil, We're already having this discussion on the downstream list. RDO is currently moving packages publication for RHEL/CentOS over CentOS mirrors. That's just a matter

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty Priorties for Nova

2015-06-09 Thread Neil Jerram
On 09/06/15 15:28, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 03:07:51PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: Secondly there is the VIF plug script idea, and it's here that the elephant may be. I'm afraid that some of the interested people (including me) missed it, but I heard that the core team

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty Priorties for Nova

2015-06-09 Thread Neil Jerram
On 04/06/15 13:05, Neil Jerram wrote: Hi John, On 04/06/15 12:21, John Garbutt wrote: Hi, We had a great discussion at the summit around priorities: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-nova-liberty-priorities I have made a stab at writing that up here, please to review if you are interested

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty Priorties for Nova

2015-06-04 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi John, On 04/06/15 12:21, John Garbutt wrote: Hi, We had a great discussion at the summit around priorities: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-nova-liberty-priorities I have made a stab at writing that up here, please to review if you are interested:

Re: [openstack-dev] The Nova API in Kilo and Beyond

2015-06-05 Thread Neil Jerram
On 05/06/15 12:32, Sean Dague wrote: https://dague.net/2015/06/05/the-nova-api-in-kilo-and-beyond-2/ This is really informative and useful, thanks. A few comments / questions, with bits of your text in quotes: Even figuring out what a cloud could do was pretty terrible. You could

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Stuck on VIF plugin script?

2015-06-22 Thread Neil Jerram
On 22/06/15 15:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:28:35AM +0100, neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: ‎It seems like we're possibly stuck now on the VIF plugin script spec [1]; there being core comments in apparently conflicting directions. I wonder if it's still feasible

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Stuck on VIF plugin script?

2015-06-22 Thread Neil Jerram
On 22/06/15 11:28, neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: ‎It seems like we're possibly stuck now on the VIF plugin script spec [1]; there being core comments in apparently conflicting directions. I wonder if it's still feasible for a version of this to land during Liberty? [1]

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Thanks Kris and Sam for your replies! On 18/06/15 01:20, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: On 6/17/15, 10:59 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: On 17/06/15 16:17, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: See inline. Kris Lindgren Senior Linux Systems

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] enriching port binding extension API dictionaries with key-values

2015-06-26 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Andreas, On 26/06/15 14:04, Andreas Scheuring wrote: Hi together, for a new ml2 plugin I would like to pass over some data from neutron to nova on port creation and update (exploiting port binding extension [1]). For my prototype I thought of using one of the following response dictionaries

Re: [openstack-dev] How does instance's tap device mac address generate?

2015-06-11 Thread Neil Jerram
On 11/06/15 10:47, changzhi wrote: Hi, all. I create a vm and it's neutron port's mac address is fa:16:3e:3f:02:ff. I see fa:16:3e:3f:02:ff inside vm when I run ifconfig eth0. Why does vm's tap device's mac address is fe:16:3e:3f:02:ff? Why different between neutron port's mac address and tap

[openstack-dev] [neutron][L3] L3 routed network segments

2015-06-11 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Carl et al., I see from [1] that L3 routed network segments are on the Neutron L3 subteam's roadmap for Liberty, and I wanted to say that I'm very interested in this work, and - if there isn't someone else already - happy to take the lead on making it happen. I'm aware already of several

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] vif type libvirt-network

2015-06-10 Thread Neil Jerram
On 10/06/15 15:47, Andreas Scheuring wrote: Hi Daniel, Neil and others, I was thinking about introducing libvirt-network as a new vif type to nova. It can be used when Neutron prepares a libvirt network for attaching guests. Would you see any general concerns with such an approach? Anything

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] vif type libvirt-network

2015-06-10 Thread Neil Jerram
is the TAP interface towards the VM. Does that answer your question, and would that be possible with a libvirt network? Thanks, Neil -- Ian. On 10 June 2015 at 12:16, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: On 10/06/15 15:47, Andreas

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Mechanism drivers and Neutron server forking?

2015-06-10 Thread Neil Jerram
On 08/06/15 22:02, Kevin Benton wrote: This depends on what initialize is supposed to be doing. If it's just a one-time sync with a back-end, then I think calling it once in each child process might not be what we want. I left a comment on Terry's patch. I think we should just use the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Kris, Apologies in advance for questions that are probably really dumb - but there are several points here that I don't understand. On 17/06/15 03:44, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: We are doing pretty much the same thing - but in a slightly different way. We extended the nova scheduler to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Couple more dumb comments here - sorry that I'm processing this thread backwards! On 16/06/15 15:20, Jay Pipes wrote: Adding -dev because of the reference to the Neutron Get me a network spec. Also adding [nova] and [neutron] subject markers. Comments inline, Kris. On 05/22/2015 09:28 PM,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Sam, On 17/06/15 01:31, Sam Morrison wrote: We at NeCTAR are starting the transition to neutron from nova-net and neutron almost does what we want. We have 10 “public networks and 10 “service networks and depending on which compute node you land on you get attached to one of them. In

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
[Sorry - unintentionally dropped -operators below; adding it back in this copy.] On 17/06/15 11:35, Neil Jerram wrote: Hi Sam, On 17/06/15 01:31, Sam Morrison wrote: We at NeCTAR are starting the transition to neutron from nova-net and neutron almost does what we want. We have 10 “public

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron][L3] L3 routed network segments

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Carl, I know you said at the end of your message below to ping you on IRC, but there are details here that I'm not sure about, and some suggestions that I'd like to make, and I think it will be clearer to discuss those in context. I hope that's OK. On 11/06/15 17:26, Carl Baldwin wrote:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [nova] [neutron] Re: How do your end users use networking?

2015-06-17 Thread Neil Jerram
On 17/06/15 16:17, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: See inline. Kris Lindgren Senior Linux Systems Engineer GoDaddy, LLC. On 6/17/15, 5:12 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Hi Kris, Apologies in advance for questions that are probably

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Impressions from Vancouver Neutron Design Summits

2015-05-29 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Gal, Thanks for starting this thread, and I'm sorry not to have met you during the summit. Vancouver was my first summit, and I very much enjoyed it. My reflection is that I came to the summit with two overall expectations, of which one proved correct and one false. The correct

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [stable] No longer doing stable point releases

2015-05-29 Thread Neil Jerram
On 29/05/15 14:41, Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi everyone, TL;DR: - We propose to stop tagging coordinated point releases (like 2015.1.1) - We continue maintaining stable branches as a trusted source of stable updates for all projects though [...] I initially misunderstood your email as saying

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Progressing/tracking work on libvirt / vif drivers

2015-06-01 Thread Neil Jerram
On 01/06/15 14:23, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:44:24AM +0100, John Garbutt wrote: On 29 May 2015 at 18:32, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Hi all, Per yesterday's IRC meeting [1], and discussion in Vancouver, Nova work is being somewhat driven

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Progressing/tracking work on libvirt / vif drivers

2015-06-01 Thread Neil Jerram
On 01/06/15 17:45, Neil Jerram wrote: Many thanks, John Dan. I'll start by drafting a summary of the work that I'm aware of in this area, at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-libvirt-vif-work. OK, my first draft of this is now there at [1]. Please could folk with VIF-related

[openstack-dev] [nova] Progressing/tracking work on libvirt / vif drivers

2015-05-29 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi all, Per yesterday's IRC meeting [1], and discussion in Vancouver, Nova work is being somewhat driven by the etherpad at [2]. But this etherpad doesn't have a section for libvirt / vif driver changes. The log at [1] briefly touched on this, but moved on after noting that Dan PB had

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron[dhcp][dnsmask]: duplicate entries in addn_hosts causing no IP allocation

2015-07-01 Thread Neil Jerram
Well, the bug discussion seems to point specifically to this dnsmasq fix: http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=9380ba70d67db6b69f817d8e318de5ba1e990b12 Neil On 01/07/15 07:34, Daniel Comnea wrote: Hi, sorry for no feedback, i've been doing more and more test and

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators][neutron[dhcp][dnsmask]: duplicate entries in addn_hosts causing no IP allocation

2015-07-01 Thread Neil Jerram
packagename or that will be too crazy? Cheers, Dani On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Well, the bug discussion seems to point specifically to this dnsmasq fix: http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git

[openstack-dev] [neutron] How to catch security group updates in ML2 mechanism driver?

2015-06-29 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi there, For my team's networking backend, we want to catch security group updates in our ML2 mechanism driver code. Currently we're doing this by monkey patching the AgentNotifierApi: # This section monkeypatches the AgentNotifierApi.security_groups_rule_updated # method to ensure

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] How to catch security group updates in ML2 mechanism driver?

2015-06-29 Thread Neil Jerram
Cool, thank you! On 29/06/15 14:08, Gal Sagie wrote: Yes, look at this patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/174588/ On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Hi there, For my team's networking backend, we want

Re: [openstack-dev] Why doesn't Gerrit email me?

2015-07-03 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Jeremy, On 30/06/15 17:45, Neil Jerram wrote: On 30/06/15 16:14, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-06-30 14:08:45 +0100 (+0100), Neil Jerram wrote: [...] I keep going back to Gerrit jobs that I've reviewed or commented on, and finding that there have been other comments since mine

[openstack-dev] Why doesn't Gerrit email me?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Apologies if this is an FAQ - I tried a quick search, but that didn't find anything that looked both up to date and authoritative. I keep going back to Gerrit jobs that I've reviewed or commented on, and finding that there have been other comments since mine, but that Gerrit didn't email me

Re: [openstack-dev] Why doesn't Gerrit email me?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Jerram
On 30/06/15 14:33, Julien Danjou wrote: On Tue, Jun 30 2015, Neil Jerram wrote: Apologies if this is an FAQ - I tried a quick search, but that didn't find anything that looked both up to date and authoritative. I keep going back to Gerrit jobs that I've reviewed or commented on, and finding

[openstack-dev] [neutron] New networking-calico project

2015-08-17 Thread Neil Jerram
I'd like to announce networking-calico, a new project within the Neutron stadium to provide OpenStack integration pieces for Project Calico [1][2]. In a sentence, Calico is a backend that uses routing and iptables to provide IP-level connectivity between VMs, instead of - as most Neutron backends

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] New networking-calico project

2015-08-18 Thread Neil Jerram
No, still not, I'm afraid. Original Message From: Sean M. Collins Sent: Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:15 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Reply To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] New

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] New networking-calico project

2015-08-18 Thread Neil Jerram
On 17/08/15 18:47, Neil Jerram wrote: I'd like to announce networking-calico [...] Then the plan for networking-calico is that it will contain docs, an ML2 mechanism driver, a DHCP interface driver, and a Devstack plugin for Calico. These aren't yet at [10], but I will be getting

[openstack-dev] [neutron] RFE for DHCP agent changes for networking-calico

2015-08-19 Thread Neil Jerram
FYI, I've raised the new RFE bug that I suggested below: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1486649 Neil On 18/08/15 23:22, Neil Jerram wrote: Although the DHCP-related patches below are I think very close to mergeable, Brian Haley on IRC queried what, process-wise, motivates

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] New networking-calico project

2015-08-18 Thread Neil Jerram
to approve that, and update the patches to reference that bug instead.  Does that sound right? Regards,        Neil  ‎   Original Message   From: Neil Jerram Sent: Monday, 17 August 2015 18:47 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Reply To: OpenStack Development Mailing List

[openstack-dev] [neutron] How to make deb and rpm packages for a networking-* project?

2015-08-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Can anyone recommend how best to make deb and rpm packages for a networking-* project? (Specifically, I mean for networking-calico, but I imagine, if there's a best current practice, that it would apply to all such projects.) I'm aware that there were recently some discussions on increased

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] RFE for DHCP agent changes for networking-calico

2015-08-24 Thread Neil Jerram
late in the Liberty cycle, but if you can get Brian, Cedric and Carl to review this and ensure they are onboard, this is the best way to move forward. Ensuring the L3 team is ok with the direction would make me comfortable here. Thanks! Kyle On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] New networking-calico project

2015-08-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Andreas, Thanks for looking at this. I'm happy to say that Jeremy already identified the problem, in a thread on openstack-infra [1], and I've submitted a fix for it [2]. Regards, Neil [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2015-August/003087.html [2]

Re: [openstack-dev] Why doesn't Gerrit email me?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Thanks Sean, + Andreas for your similar reply... Yes, I guess that could be it. My company's setup is Exchange, and the IT folk here assure me that any spam emails would be in my Junk folder - and the missing Gerrit emails aren't there. But, maybe that's not the 100% full story, for some

Re: [openstack-dev] Why doesn't Gerrit email me?

2015-06-30 Thread Neil Jerram
On 30/06/15 16:14, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-06-30 14:08:45 +0100 (+0100), Neil Jerram wrote: [...] I keep going back to Gerrit jobs that I've reviewed or commented on, and finding that there have been other comments since mine, but that Gerrit didn't email me about. [...] Looking in our

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][L3] Representing a networks connected by routers

2015-07-22 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21/07/15 15:45, Salvatore Orlando wrote: On 21 July 2015 at 14:21, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: You've probably seen Robert Kukura's comment on the related bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1458890/comments/30

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][L3] Representing a networks connected by routers

2015-07-21 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21/07/15 01:47, Assaf Muller wrote: - Original Message - I'm looking for feedback from anyone interest but, in particular, I'd like feedback from the following people for varying perspectives: Mark McClain (proposed alternate), John Belamaric (IPAM), Ryan Tidwell (BGP), Neil

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] 'routed' network type, DHCP agent + devstack support - review requested

2015-07-24 Thread Neil Jerram
On 20/07/15 18:50, Ian Wells wrote: On 20 July 2015 at 10:21, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: Hi Ian, On 20/07/15 18:00, Ian Wells wrote: On 19 July 2015 at 03:46, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] What does flavor mean for a network?

2015-07-16 Thread Neil Jerram
: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Neil Jerram neil.jer...@metaswitch.com mailto:neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: I've been reading available docs about the forthcoming Neutron flavors framework, and am not yet sure I understand what it means

[openstack-dev] [neutron] 'routed' network type, DHCP agent + devstack support - review requested

2015-07-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Neutron folk! I'd like to give an update on and encourage wide review of my work on a type of network that connects VMs through IP routing instead of through bridging and tunneling at L2. I believe the core Neutron pieces of this are now complete and ready for detailed review and potential

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