Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-30 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Ian, I hope that you guys are in agreement on this. But take a look at the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PCI_passthrough_SRIOV_support and see if it has any difference from your proposals. IMO, it's the critical piece of the proposal, and hasn't been specified in exact term yet. I'm

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-29 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Hi Yongli, Thank you for addressing my comments, and for adding the encryption card use case. One thing that I want to point out is that in this use case, you may not use the pci-flavor in the --nic option because it's not a neutron feature. I have a few more questions: 1. pci-flavor-attrs is

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-29 Thread Ian Wells
My proposals: On 29 January 2014 16:43, Robert Li (baoli) ba...@cisco.com wrote: 1. pci-flavor-attrs is configured through configuration files and will be available on both the controller node and the compute nodes. Can the cloud admin decide to add a new attribute in a running cloud? If

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-21 Thread Ian Wells
Document updated to talk about network aware scheduling ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vadqmurlnlvZ5bv3BlUbFeXRS_wh-dsgi5plSjimWjU/edit#- section just before the use case list). Based on yesterday's meeting, rkukura would also like to see network-aware scheduling to work for non-PCI cases

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-21 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
as VM vNIC. Regards, Irena -Original Message- From: Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.ji...@intel.com] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:06 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Robert

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-21 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Yunhong, Just try to understand your use case: -- a VM can only work with cards from vendor V1 -- a VM can work with cards from both vendor V1 and V2 So stats in the two flavors will overlap in the PCI flavor solution. I'm just trying to say that this is something that needs to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-20 Thread Irena Berezovsky
- From: Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:ba...@cisco.com] Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 12:33 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Yunhong, I'm hoping that these comments can be directly

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-20 Thread Ian Wells
On 20 January 2014 09:28, Irena Berezovsky ire...@mellanox.com wrote: Hi, Having post PCI meeting discussion with Ian based on his proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vadqmurlnlvZ5bv3BlUbFeXRS_wh-dsgi5plSjimWjU/edit?pli=1# , I am not sure that the case that quite usable for SR-IOV

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-18 Thread Irena Berezovsky
: Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:ba...@cisco.com] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:08 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Yunhong, Thank you for bringing that up on the live migration

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-17 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Yunhong, Thank you for bringing that up on the live migration support. In addition to the two solutions you mentioned, Irena has a different solution. Let me put all the them here again: 1. network xml/group based solution. In this solution, each host that supports a provider

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-17 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
Li (baoli) [mailto:ba...@cisco.com] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:08 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Yunhong, Thank you for bringing that up on the live migration support

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-17 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
network scenario in that framework. Thanks --jyh -Original Message- From: Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:ba...@cisco.com] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:08 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-17 Thread yunhong jiang
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 22:30 +, Robert Li (baoli) wrote: Yunhong, I'm hoping that these comments can be directly addressed: a practical deployment scenario that requires arbitrary attributes. I'm just strongly against to support only one attributes (your PCI group) for scheduling

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-16 Thread yongli he
On 2014?01?16? 08:28, Ian Wells wrote: To clarify a couple of Robert's points, since we had a conversation earlier: On 15 January 2014 23:47, Robert Li (baoli) ba...@cisco.com mailto:ba...@cisco.com wrote: --- do we agree that BDF address (or device id, whatever you call it), and

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-16 Thread Irena Berezovsky
/document/d/1vadqmurlnlvZ5bv3BlUbFeXRS_wh-dsgi5plSjimWjU/edit?pli=1#heading=h.308b0wqn1zde BR, Irena From: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 2:34 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-16 Thread Ian Wells
On 16 January 2014 09:07, yongli he yongli...@intel.com wrote: On 2014年01月16日 08:28, Ian Wells wrote: This is based on Robert's current code for macvtap based live migration. The issue is that if you wish to migrate a VM and it's tied to a physical interface, you can't guarantee that the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-16 Thread Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Ian, Thank you for putting in writing the ongoing discussed specification. I have

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-16 Thread yunhong jiang
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 01:28 +0100, Ian Wells wrote: To clarify a couple of Robert's points, since we had a conversation earlier: On 15 January 2014 23:47, Robert Li (baoli) ba...@cisco.com wrote: --- do we agree that BDF address (or device id, whatever you call it), and

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-15 Thread Ian Wells
To clarify a couple of Robert's points, since we had a conversation earlier: On 15 January 2014 23:47, Robert Li (baoli) ba...@cisco.com wrote: --- do we agree that BDF address (or device id, whatever you call it), and node id shouldn't be used as attributes in defining a PCI flavor? Note

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Irena Berezovsky
) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Comments with prefix [yjiang5_2] , including the double confirm. I think we (you and me) is mostly on the same page, would you please give a summary, and then we can have community , including Irena/Robert, to check

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Wells
that integrate with neutron APIs from item 3. Regards, Irena -Original Message- From: John Garbutt [mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:34 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Irena Berezovsky
, January 13, 2014 2:02 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Irena, have a word with Bob (rkukura on IRC, East coast), he was talking about what would be needed already and should be able

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
As I have responded in the other email, and If I understand PCI flavor correctly, then the issue that we need to deal with is the overlapping issue. A simplest case of this overlapping is that you can define a flavor F1 as [vendor_id='v', product_id='p'], and a flavor F2 as [vendor_id = 'v'] .

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
...@cisco.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 8:22 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support As I have responded in the other email, and If I understand PCI flavor correctly, then the issue that we

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Wells
*From:* Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:ba...@cisco.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 8:22 AM *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support As I have responded in the other email, and If I

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Jiang, Yunhong; He, Yongli; Robert Li (baoli) (ba...@cisco.com); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) (sad...@cisco.com); ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk; j...@johngarbutt.com Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
flavor, i.e. pci requests, to the pci stats. Thanks --jyh From: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:57 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support It's worth

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Wells
*From:* Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 10:57 AM *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support It's worth noting that this makes the scheduling

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-12 Thread Irena Berezovsky
: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Apologies for this top post, I just want to move this discussion towards action. I am traveling next week so it is unlikely that I can make the meetings. Sorry. Can we please agree on some concrete actions, and who will do the coding

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Ian Wells
On 10 January 2014 07:40, Jiang, Yunhong yunhong.ji...@intel.com wrote: Robert, sorry that I’m not fan of * your group * term. To me, *your group” mixed two thing. It’s an extra property provided by configuration, and also it’s a very-not-flexible mechanism to select devices (you can only

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Ian Wells
In any case, we don't have to decide this now. If we simply allowed the whitelist to add extra arbitrary properties to the PCI record (like a group name) and return it to the central server, we could use that in scheduling for the minute as a group name, we wouldn't implement the APIs for flavors

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread John Garbutt
Apologies for this top post, I just want to move this discussion towards action. I am traveling next week so it is unlikely that I can make the meetings. Sorry. Can we please agree on some concrete actions, and who will do the coding? This also means raising new blueprints for each item of work.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Alan Kavanagh
+1 PCI Flavor. From: Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.ji...@intel.com] Sent: January-10-14 1:56 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support BTW, I like the PCI flavor :) From: Jiang, Yunhong

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Irena Berezovsky; Sandhya Dasu (sadasu); Jiang, Yunhong; Itzik Brown; j...@johngarbutt.commailto:j...@johngarbutt.com; He, Yongli Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Folks, With John joining

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Hi Yongli, Please also see my response to Yunhong. Here, I just want to add a comment about your local versus global argument. I took a brief look at your patches, and the PCI-flavor is added into the whitelist. The compute node needs to know these pci-flavors in order to report PCI stats

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
Ian, thanks for your reply. Please check my response prefix with 'yjiang5'. --jyh From: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:08 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
, and it may even various in different distribution. Thanks --jyh From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:19 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Ian Wells
On 10 January 2014 15:30, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com wrote: We seemed happy with the current system (roughly) around GPU passthrough: nova flavor-key three_GPU_attached_30GB set pci_passthrough:alias= large_GPU:1,small_GPU:2 nova boot --image some_image --flavor three_GPU_attached_30GB

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Ian Wells
Hey Yunhong, The thing about 'group' and 'flavor' and 'whitelist' is that they once meant distinct things (and I think we've been trying to reduce them back from three things to two or one): - group: equivalent devices at a host level - use any one, no-one will care, because they're either

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
Ian, thanks for your reply. Please check comments prefix with [yjiang5]. Thanks --jyh From: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:17 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-10 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
I have to use [yjiang5_1] prefix now :) --jyh From: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:55 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support On 11 January 2014

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Hi Folks, With John joining the IRC, so far, we had a couple of productive meetings in an effort to come to consensus and move forward. Thanks John for doing that, and I appreciate everyone's effort to make it to the daily meeting. Let's reconvene on Monday. But before that, and based on our

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Ian Wells
I think I'm in agreement with all of this. Nice summary, Robert. It may not be where the work ends, but if we could get this done the rest is just refinement. On 9 January 2014 17:49, Robert Li (baoli) ba...@cisco.com wrote: Hi Folks, With John joining the IRC, so far, we had a

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Brian Schott
Ian, The idea of pci flavors is a great and using vendor_id and product_id make sense, but I could see a case for adding the class name such as 'VGA compatible controller'. Otherwise, slightly different generations of hardware will mean custom whitelist setups on each compute node. 01:00.0

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
@lists.openstack.orgmailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support I think I'm in agreement with all of this. Nice summary, Robert. It may not be where the work ends, but if we could get this done the rest is just refinement. On 9 January

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Ian Wells
On 9 January 2014 20:19, Brian Schott brian.sch...@nimbisservices.comwrote: Ian, The idea of pci flavors is a great and using vendor_id and product_id make sense, but I could see a case for adding the class name such as 'VGA compatible controller'. Otherwise, slightly different generations

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Ian Wells
On 9 January 2014 22:50, Ian Wells ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk wrote: On 9 January 2014 20:19, Brian Schott brian.sch...@nimbisservices.comwrote: On the flip side, vendor_id and product_id might not be sufficient. Suppose I have two identical NICs, one for nova internal use and the second for

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Folks, With John joining the IRC, so far, we had a couple of productive meetings in an effort to come to consensus and move forward. Thanks John for doing that, and I appreciate everyone's effort to make it to the daily meeting

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support I think I'm in agreement with all of this. Nice summary, Robert. It may not be where the work ends, but if we could get this done the rest is just refinement. On 9 January

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
BTW, I like the PCI flavor :) From: Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.ji...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:41 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi, Ian, when you

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-09 Thread yongli he
On 2014?01?10? 00:49, Robert Li (baoli) wrote: Hi Folks, HI, all basiclly i flavor the pic-flavor style and against massing the white-list. please see my inline comments. With John joining the IRC, so far, we had a couple of productive meetings in an effort to come to consensus and

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-02 Thread John Garbutt
On 22 December 2013 12:07, Irena Berezovsky ire...@mellanox.com wrote: Hi Ian, My comments are inline I would like to suggest to focus the next PCI-pass though IRC meeting on: 1.Closing the administration and tenant that powers the VM use cases. 2. Decouple the nova and

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Hi John, We had one on 12/14/2013 with the log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/pci_passthrough_meeting/2013/pci_pa ssthrough_meeting.2013-12-24-14.02.log.html The next one will be at UTC 1400 on Jan. 7th, Tuesday. --Robert On 1/2/14 10:06 AM, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com wrote:

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-23 Thread Jose Gavine Cueto
Hi, I would just like to share my idea on somehow managing sr-iov networking attributes in neutron (e.g. mac addr, ip addr, vlan). I've had experience implementing this and that was before pci-passthrough feature in nova existed. Basically, nova still did the plugging and the unplugging of vifs

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 12/17/2013 10:09 AM, Ian Wells wrote: Reiterating from the IRC mneeting, largely, so apologies. Firstly, I disagree that https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PCI_passthrough_SRIOV_support is an accurate reflection of the current state. It's a very unilateral view, largely because the rest of us

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-22 Thread Irena Berezovsky
: Ian Wells [mailto:ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:50 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support On 19 December 2013 15:15, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.commailto:j

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread John Garbutt
Apologies for being late onto this thread, and not making the meeting the other day. Also apologies this is almost totally a top post. On 17 December 2013 15:09, Ian Wells ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk wrote: Firstly, I disagree that https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PCI_passthrough_SRIOV_support is an

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Wells
John: At a high level: Neutron: * user wants to connect to a particular neutron network * user wants a super-fast SRIOV connection Administration: * needs to map PCI device to what neutron network the connect to The big question is: * is this a specific SRIOV only (provider) network *

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread John Garbutt
On 19 December 2013 12:21, Ian Wells ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk wrote: John: At a high level: Neutron: * user wants to connect to a particular neutron network * user wants a super-fast SRIOV connection Administration: * needs to map PCI device to what neutron network the connect to The

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread John Garbutt
On 19 December 2013 12:54, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com wrote: On 19 December 2013 12:21, Ian Wells ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk wrote: John: At a high level: Neutron: * user wants to connect to a particular neutron network * user wants a super-fast SRIOV connection Administration: *

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread Irena Berezovsky
Garbutt [mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:42 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Apologies for being late onto this thread, and not making the meeting

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread John Garbutt
use cases. Please see my comments inline. Cool. Regards, Irena -Original Message- From: John Garbutt [mailto:j...@johngarbutt.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:42 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Wells
On 19 December 2013 15:15, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com wrote: Note, I don't see the person who boots the server ever seeing the pci-flavor, only understanding the server flavor. [IrenaB] I am not sure that elaborating PCI device request into server flavor is the right approach for

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-11-02 Thread Isaku Yamahata
Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi, Regarding physical network mapping, This is what I thought. consider the following

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-30 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:14:40AM +, Jiang, Yunhong yunhong.ji...@intel.com wrote: But how about long term direction? Neutron should know/manage such network related resources on compute nodes? So you mean the PCI device management will be spited between Nova and Neutron? For

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena, This is Robert Li from Cisco Systems. Recently, I was tasked to investigate such support for Cisco's systems that support VM-FEX

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
(kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena, Thank you very much for your comments. See inline. --Robert On 10/27/13 3:48 AM, Irena Berezovsky ire...@mellanox.commailto:ire...@mellanox.com wrote: Hi Robert, Thank you very

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Irena Berezovsky
...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Robert, is it possible to have a IRC meeting? I'd prefer to IRC

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread John Garbutt
(brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena, Thank you very much for your comments. See inline. --Robert On 10/27/13 3:48 AM, Irena Berezovsky ire...@mellanox.com wrote: Hi

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
...@windriver.commailto:chris.frie...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Robert, is it possible to have a IRC

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
(brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena, Thank you very much for your comments. See inline. --Robert On 10/27/13 3:48 AM, Irena Berezovsky ire...@mellanox.commailto:ire...@mellanox.com wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Robert, is it possible to have a IRC meeting? I¹d prefer to IRC meeting because it¹s

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Henry Gessau
; prashant.upadhy...@aricent.com; chris.frie...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
...@aricent.com; chris.frie...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Robert, is it possible

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
...@aricent.com; chris.frie...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Jiang, Robert, IRC meeting option works

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
(kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Yunhong, I haven't looked at Mellanox in much detail. I think that we'll get more details from Irena down the road. Regarding your question, I can only answer

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Henry Gessau
Message- From: Henry Gessau [mailto:ges...@cisco.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:10 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Lots of great info and discussion going on here. One

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
-Original Message- From: Henry Gessau [mailto:ges...@cisco.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:23 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support On Tue, Oct 29, at 4:31 pm

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Henry Gessau
] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support On Tue, Oct 29, at 4:31 pm, Jiang, Yunhong yunhong.ji...@intel.com wrote: Henry,why do you think the service VM need the entire PF instead of a VF? I think the SR-IOV NIC should provide QoS and performance isolation. I was speculating. I just

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-29 Thread Jiang, Yunhong
, Yunhong; chris.frie...@windriver.com; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-28 Thread yongli he
...@windriver.com; yongli...@intel.com mailto:yongli...@intel.com *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support Hi Irena

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support

2013-10-25 Thread Robert Li (baoli)
Hi Irena, This is Robert Li from Cisco Systems. Recently, I was tasked to investigate such support for Cisco's systems that support VM-FEX, which is a SRIOV technology supporting 802-1Qbh. I was able to bring up nova instances with SRIOV interfaces, and establish networking in between the