Introduce infrastructure for plug providers and add feature to ovn-controller to add and remove ports on the integration bridge as directed by CMS through Logical_Switch_Port options.
Traditionally it has been the CMSs responsibility to create Virtual Interfaces (VIFs) as part of instance (Container, Pod, Virtual Machine etc.) life cycle, and subsequently manage plug/unplug operations on the Open vSwitch integration bridge. With the advent of NICs connected to multiple distinct CPUs we can have a topology where the instance runs on one host and Open vSwitch and OVN runs on a different host, the smartnic control plane CPU. The host facing interfaces will be visible to Open vSwitch and OVN as representor ports. The actions necessary for plugging and unplugging the representor port in Open vSwitch running on the smartnic control plane CPU would be the same for every CMS. Hardware or platform specific details for initialization and lookup of representor ports is provided by an plugging provider hosted inside or outside the core OVN repository, and linked at OVN build time. RFC1 -> RFC2: - Introduce the plug-provider interface, remove hardware/platform dependent code. - Add ovsport module. - Integrate with binding module. - Split into multiple patches. RFC2 -> v1: - Extend build system, `--with-plug-provider`. - Check for required data in b_ctx_in and lbinding data structures. - Split consider_plug_lport into update and create processing functions. - Consider unplug on release where relevant. - Add ovn-controller `--enable-dummy-plug` option for testing. - Consistent function naming and move ovsport module to controller/. - Rename plug-test.c -> plug-dummy.c. - Add functional- and unit- tests. v1 -> v2: - Move update to controller/binding.h from patch 6 -> patch 5. - Fix lint problems reported by 0-day Robot. v2 -> v3: - Fix build system extension for plug provider. - Implement DDlog version of northd change. - Rebase on tip. v3 -> v4: - sb:Port_Binding:plugged_by -> sb:Port_Binding:requested_chassis. - Move documentation of plugin specific options to plugin implementation. - ovn-northd-ddlog: squash changes into same patch as C version, rework the DDlog implementation. - controller: Use requested_chassis column instead of parsing options. - plug-provider: Remove the extra class instantiation layer and refcounting. Add documentation and various tweaks. - controller: Add engine node for plug provider so that a plugin run function can run at an appropriate time and also allow feeding back information about changes that can not be handled incrementally. - binding: Fix return values for plug functions so they adhere to the incremental processing engine contract. - Add support for building in-tree plug providers. v4 -> v5: - binding: Make some data structures and functions public to allow other modules to make use of its local binding tracking data structures. - Add separate incremental processing engine nodes for the plug provider. - Do change handling in the controller/plug module rather than piggy backing on the binding module. - Deal with asynchronous notification to plug provider class and subsequent freeing of data structures when the transaction commits. - Drop the representor plugin as in-tree plugin to address concerns about it being Linux-only and having netlink/kernel dependencies. Will upstream to ovn-org/ovn-vif instead. v5 -> v6: - Fix 0-day Robot documentation lexer warning treated as error: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-build/2021-September/017538.html v6 -> v7: - lport: Fall back to strcmp when requested-chassis option is set but Port_Binding->requested_chassis is not filled yet. - physical: Make use of common lport_can_bind_on_this_chassis helper instead of duplicating the inverse check in the code. - tests: Add test cases to cover currently uncovered requested-chassis functionality. - plug: Make smaps struct members instead of pointers. - plug: Don't use is_deleted function when not iterating over tracked records. Avoid adding multiple delete or update iface requests to the same transaction. - plug: For full recompute, don't process until northd has populated Port_Binding->requested_chassis to avoid thrashing on startup. Also fix order of processing. - plug: Handle failed transactions appropriately. - tests: Clean up and extend plug test case. Previous discussion: - RFC1: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20210509140305.1910796-1-frode.nord...@canonical.com/ - RFC2: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/cover/20210805145013.3033919-1-frode.nord...@gmail.com/ Frode Nordahl (12): ovn-sb: Add requested_chassis column to Port_Binding. controller: Make use of Port_Binding:requested_chassis. controller: Move OVS port functions to new module. patch: Consume ovsport functions. binding: Move can_bind helper to lport module. physical: Make use of common can bind helper. binding: Make local_binding data structure public. ovn-controller: Move shared functions to ovn-util. tests: Use built objects for unit test deps. lib: Add infrastructure for plug providers. ovn-controller: Prepare plug provider infrastructure. controller: Consider plugging of ports on CMS request. Documentation/automake.mk | 2 + Documentation/topics/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/topics/plug_providers/index.rst | 32 + .../topics/plug_providers/plug-providers.rst | 196 +++++ acinclude.m4 | 49 ++ configure.ac | 2 + controller/automake.mk | 6 +- controller/binding.c | 67 +- controller/binding.h | 34 + controller/local_data.h | 11 +- controller/lport.c | 25 + controller/lport.h | 3 + controller/ovn-controller.c | 268 ++++++- controller/ovsport.c | 266 +++++++ controller/ovsport.h | 60 ++ controller/patch.c | 39 +- controller/physical.c | 6 +- controller/plug.c | 670 ++++++++++++++++++ controller/plug.h | 83 +++ controller/test-plug.c | 70 ++ lib/automake.mk | 10 +- lib/chassis-index.c | 24 + lib/chassis-index.h | 3 + lib/ovn-util.c | 27 + lib/ovn-util.h | 18 +- lib/plug-provider.c | 204 ++++++ lib/plug-provider.h | 164 +++++ lib/plug_providers/dummy/plug-dummy.c | 119 ++++ northd/northd.c | 45 +- northd/northd.h | 1 + northd/ovn-northd.c | 9 +- northd/ovn_northd.dl | 123 +++- ovn-architecture.7.xml | 35 +- ovn-nb.xml | 21 + ovn-sb.ovsschema | 10 +- ovn-sb.xml | 21 + tests/automake.mk | 26 +- tests/ovn-controller.at | 1 - tests/ovn-macros.at | 2 +- tests/ovn-northd.at | 45 ++ tests/ovn-plug.at | 8 + tests/ovn.at | 220 ++++++ 42 files changed, 2856 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/topics/plug_providers/index.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/topics/plug_providers/plug-providers.rst create mode 100644 controller/ovsport.c create mode 100644 controller/ovsport.h create mode 100644 controller/plug.c create mode 100644 controller/plug.h create mode 100644 controller/test-plug.c create mode 100644 lib/plug-provider.c create mode 100644 lib/plug-provider.h create mode 100644 lib/plug_providers/dummy/plug-dummy.c create mode 100644 tests/ovn-plug.at -- 2.32.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev