Hi edouard, thanks for the information. I would love to see your patch getting merged to have l2-population MD fully functional with an OVS based deployment. Moreover, this patch has a minimal impact on neutron, since the code is used only if l2-population MD is used in the ML2 plugin.
markmcclain was concerned that no functional testing is done, but L2-population MD needs mutlinode deployment to be tested. A deployment based on a single VM won't create overlay tunnels, which is a mandatory technology to have l2-population activated. The Opensatck-CI is not able, for the moment, to run job based on multi-node deployment. We proposed an evolution of devstack to have a multinode deployment based on a single VM which launch compute nodes in LXC containers [1], but this evolution has been refused by Opensatck-CI since there is other ways to run multinode setup with devstack, and LXC container is not compatible with iscsi and probably ovs [2][3]. One way to have functional test for this feature would be to deploy 3rd party testing environment, but it would be a pity to have to maintain a 3rd party to test some functionalities which are not based on 3rd party equipments. So we are currently learning about the Openstack-CI tools to propose some evolutions to have mutinode setup inside the gate [4]. There are a lot of way to implement it (node-pools evolution, usage of tripleO, of Heat [5]), and we don't know which one would be the easiest, and so the one we have to work on to have the multinode feature available ASAP. This feature looks very important for Neutron, at least to test overlay tunneling. I thinks it's very important for nova too, to test live-migration. [1]https://blueprints.launchpad.net/devstack/+spec/lxc-computes [2]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1226855 [3]http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/infra/2014/infra.2014-02-18-19.01.log.html [4]https://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-infra@lists.openstack.org/msg00968.html [5]http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2013-July/000128.html On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Édouard Thuleau <thul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just to inform you that the new OVS release 2.1.0 was done yesterday [1]. > This release contains new features and significant performance improvements > [2]. > > And in that new features, one [3] was use to add local ARP responder with > OVS agent and the plugin ML2 with the MD l2-pop [4]. Perhaps, it's time to > reconsider that review? > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@openvswitch.org/msg09251.html > [2] http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.1.0 > [3] > http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=commitdiff;h=f6c8a6b163af343c66aea54953553d84863835f7 > [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/49227/ > > Regards, > Édouard. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
