Here's a link directly to the current design proposal [1] that might be of interest.
[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/318317/4/doc/source/devref/openvswitch_agent.rst@463 On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Carl Baldwin <c...@ecbaldwin.net> wrote: > Hi, > > You may or may not be aware of the vlan-aware-vms effort [1] in > Neutron. If not, there is a spec and a fair number of patches in > progress for this. Essentially, the goal is to allow a VM to connect > to multiple Neutron networks by tagging traffic on a single port with > VLAN tags. > > This effort will have some effect on vif plugging because the datapath > will include some changes that will effect how vif plugging is done > today. > > The design proposal for trunk ports with OVS adds a new bridge for > each trunk port. This bridge will demux the traffic and then connect > to br-int with patch ports for each of the networks. Rawlin Peters > has some ideas for expanding the vif capability to include this > wiring. > > There is also a proposal for connecting to linux bridges by using > kernel vlan interfaces. > > This effort is pretty important to Neutron in the Newton timeframe. I > wanted to send this out to start rounding up the reviewers and other > participants we need to see how we can start putting together a plan > for nova integration of this feature (via os-vif?). > > Carl Baldwin > > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/vlan-aware-vms+-status:abandoned __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
