Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] OVS Agent and OF bridges
Thanks Kyle. It confirms our understanding. Thanks. We would be starting this work very soon and will update. Thanks Srini -Original Message- From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) [mailto:kmest...@cisco.com] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 6:30 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] OVS Agent and OF bridges On Aug 2, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Addepalli Srini-B22160 b22...@freescale.com wrote: Hi, As I understand, current OVS Quantum agent is assuming that there are two Openflow bridges (br-int and br-tun). br_tun, I think, is introduced to take care of overlay tunnels. With flow based tunnel selection and tunnel parameters definition, I think br-tun is no longer required. Removal of br-tun increases the performance as one less OF bridge in the packet path. Is there any interest in community to remove br-tun? If so, we can work on it and provide a blue print and the code. Thanks Srini Hi Srini: I am very interested in this, and I think this would be a nice performance improvement. We'd have to maintain backwards compatibility with the existing code, since only version of OVS = 1.10 have flow-based tunneling code. If you want, I'd be happy to review your BP and code for this, or even work with you on this. Thanks, Kyle ___ 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 ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
[openstack-dev] [Neutron] OVS Agent and OF bridges
Hi, As I understand, current OVS Quantum agent is assuming that there are two Openflow bridges (br-int and br-tun). br_tun, I think, is introduced to take care of overlay tunnels. With flow based tunnel selection and tunnel parameters definition, I think br-tun is no longer required. Removal of br-tun increases the performance as one less OF bridge in the packet path. Is there any interest in community to remove br-tun? If so, we can work on it and provide a blue print and the code. Thanks Srini ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] OVS Agent and OF bridges
On Aug 2, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Addepalli Srini-B22160 b22...@freescale.com wrote: Hi, As I understand, current OVS Quantum agent is assuming that there are two Openflow bridges (br-int and br-tun). “br_tun”, I think, is introduced to take care of overlay tunnels. With flow based tunnel selection and tunnel parameters definition, I think br-tun is no longer required. Removal of br-tun increases the performance as one less OF bridge in the packet path. Is there any interest in community to remove br-tun? If so, we can work on it and provide a blue print and the code. Thanks Srini Hi Srini: I am very interested in this, and I think this would be a nice performance improvement. We'd have to maintain backwards compatibility with the existing code, since only version of OVS = 1.10 have flow-based tunneling code. If you want, I'd be happy to review your BP and code for this, or even work with you on this. Thanks, Kyle ___ 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
