On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:21 AM, Gopi Krishna B <gopi97...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > Currently in Neutron the integration bridge (br-int) and other bridges > configured over each physical nic (e.g. br-eth0, br-eth1 etc) are being > configured in Compute and Network nodes. What is the logic behind or > advantages having 2 OVS bridges in the physical host? > Can we have only one bridge for each physical NIC, similar to what linux > bridge setup has. And configure/modify the flows such that VLAN conversion is > appropriately setup for ingress and egress traffic within the single bridge. > Thus also eliminating the veth pairs used to connect the bridges together. > Is this a feasible proposal, and can it be worked on? > Sure, please file a blueprint and submit a patch for this, I would review this for sure! :) There are optimizations underway around this area. For example, we're looking at possibly collapsing the individual Linuxbridge and OVS agents into a single agent. In the context of ML2, this makes sense. I've thought a bit about collapsing the bridges from two to one and this is something which seems quite doable frankly. Thanks, Kyle > -- > Regards > Gopi Krishna > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
