----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luke Gorrie" <l...@snabb.co> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > > Greetings fellow NFV'stas! > > I would like to explain and solicit feedback on our plan to support a new > open source NFV system in Juno. This work is approved as > low-priority/best-effort for Juno-3. (Yes, we do understand that we are > fighting the odds in terms of the Juno schedule.) > > We are developing a practical open source NFV implementation for OpenStack. > This is for people who want to run tens of millions of packets per second > through Virtio-net on each compute node. The work involves contributing > code upstream to a dependent chain of projects: > > snabbswitch -> QEMU -> Libvirt -> Nova -> Neutron
Hi Luke, I've added the [third-party] tag as well to ensure this catches the broadest segment of relevant people. Probably a stupid question from me - are any modifications to upstream Open vSwitch required to support Snabb? Thanks, Steve > Recently we had a breakthrough: QEMU upstream merged the vhost-user feature > that we developed and this convinced the kind maintainers of Libvirt, Nova, > and Neutron to let us target code to them in parallel. Now Libvirt has > accepted our code upstream too and the last pieces are Nova and Neutron. > (Then we can start work on Version 2.) > > Previously our upstreaming effort has been obstructed: people > understandably wanted to see our QEMU code accepted before they would take > us seriously. So it is an exciting time for us and our upstreaming work. > > Just now we have ramped up our OpenStack development effort in response to > getting approved for Juno-3. Michele Paolino has joined in: he is > experienced with Libvirt and is the one who upstreamed our code there. > Nikolay Nikolaev is joining in too: he did the bulk of the development on > vhost-user and the upstreaming of it into QEMU. > > Here is what the three of us are working on for Juno-3: > > * VIF_VHOSTUSER support in Nova. > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vif-vhostuser > > * Snabb NFV mech driver for Neutron. > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/snabb-nfv-mech-driver > > * NFV CI: OpenStack 3rd party CI that covers our entire software ecosystem > (snabbswitch + QEMU + Libvirt + Nova + Neutron). > > We are already getting great support from the community. Thank you > everybody for that, and meta-thankyou to the people who setup the NFV > subgroup which has been a fantastic enabler. For the code changes, the ball > is in our court now to get them into shape in time. For the CI, I think > it's worth having a discussion to make sure we are on the same page and > have the same expectations. Have you already attempted to solicit some core reviewers in Nova and Neutron with an > Here is how I visualize our ideal NFV CI for Juno: > > * Run Tempest tests for Nova and Neutron. > * Test with the relevant versions of Libvirt, QEMU, and snabbswitch. > * Test with NFV-oriented features that are upstream in OpenStack. > * Test with NFV-oriented changes that are not yet upstream e.g. Neutron QoS > API. > * Operate reliably with a strong track record. > * Be easy for other people to replicate if they want to run their own NFV > CI. > > This CI should then provide assurance for us that our whole ecosystem is > running compatibly, for OpenStack that the code going upstream is > continuously tested, and for end users that the software they plan to > deploy works (either based on our tests, if they are deploying the same > software that we use, or based on their own tests if they want to operate a > customised CI). > > How does this CI idea sound to the community and to others who are > interested in related NFV-oriented features? > > That was quite a brain-dump... we have been working on this for quite some > time but mostly on the parts outside of the OpenStack tree until now. > > For more information about our open source NFV project you can read the > humble home page: http://snabb.co/nfv.html > > and if you want to talk nuts and bolts you can find us on Github: > https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch > > and Google Groups: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/snabb-devel > > We are independent open source developers and we are working to support > Deutsche Telekom's TeraStream NFV project. > > Cheers! > -Luke > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Steve Gordon, RHCE Sr. Technical Product Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev