Hi Thiago On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 at 23:58 Martinx - ジェームズ <[email protected]> wrote: [...]
However, I am curious about the following scenarios: > > Will be possible to use, at the same time (same Network and Compute nodes > / Host Aggregate): > > 1- Regular OVS bridges without DPDK for VXLAN Networks, with > OVS-Firewall-Driver and; > > 2- OVS powered by DPDK for Provider Networks only ( without any firewall, > current case anyway, due to > https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1531205). > > ? > > I have NFV Instances that are also, DPDK L2 Bridges running on KVM Guest > / VirtIO, that are physically wired using Provider Networks (flat and > vlans). > > So, for the Instance's vNICs (eth1 and eth2) that are used as a L2 > bridge, I don't want any kind of ovs-firewall (I'm not affected by LP > #1531205 on this case) and I want OVS+DPDK under it but, for SSH into the > Instance to manage it (via its eth0), it is still using regular VXLAN with > Security Groups - OVS-Firewall from now on (no need for DPDK under eth0 / > VXLAN). > > I'm curious about this specially because the OVS Ubuntu package, makes > use of Debian's Alternatives subsystem, and we need to choose one OVS > (default), or another (with DPDK), via "update-alternatives", so, will be > possible to select OVS with DPDK but, use regular bridges with it as well > (for VXLAN networks)? > We're shipping two binaries due to the baseline CPU requirement for DPDK being above the general baseline in Ubuntu; the DPDK enabled binary supports all of the things that the vanilla binary does + DPDK. > If yes, how to create a VXLAN network with regular OVS and another > FLAT/VLAN network with OVS+DPDK ? > Not sure whether a mixed mode openvswitch deployment is possible on a single compute node - I can see how to switch between netdev and system based bridges in the agent configuration, but that applies at the agent level, not to specific bridges. Cheers James
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