[openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through openstack meeting

yongli he yongli.he at intel.com
Mon Nov 25 01:45:03 UTC 2013


On 2013?11?23? 06:19, Robert Li (baoli) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> In order to move forward with our discussion and to be productive, I 
> came up with a preliminary google doc that is based on our discussion 
> so far (Through email thread and during summit and last meeting) . 
> It's not completed yet, especially the neutron part. Please comment on 
> it or any question is welcome. I'm hoping to continue our discussion 
> next week based on the doc. Meanwhile, I will continue to work on the 
> neutron part.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EMwDg9J8zOxzvTnQJ9HwZdiotaVstFWKIuKrPse6JOs/edit?usp=sharing
great work, Robert.   i had setup a wiki for next step supporting :
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PCI_passthrough_SRIOV_support

and for goole docs, i had no right to modify it, could you please put it 
to a seperated wiki page , and everyone could
comments on it?

then we are ready for review our nova side blue-print for the SRIOV.

Yongli He(Pauli He)


>
> thanks,
> Robert
>
> On 11/11/13 5:33 PM, "Robert Li (baoli)" <baoli at cisco.com 
> <mailto:baoli at cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     It will be difficult for me with 7-8PM UTC on Thursday. How about
>     Monday 7-8pm UTC (or 6-7 pm UTC)? Both slots are available on the
>     #openstack-meeting channel.
>
>     thanks,
>     Robert
>
>     On 11/11/13 11:34 AM, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang at intel.com
>     <mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi, Sandhya,
>
>                  I’m at PST, so I’d prefer to option 3 (7-8 PM UTC),
>         option 1 (2~3 PM UTC )  less preferred but works still (my 6
>         am ~ 7 am).  option 2 does work for me.
>
>         Thanks
>
>         --jyh
>
>         *From:*Sandhya Dasu (sadasu) [mailto:sadasu at cisco.com]
>         *Sent:* Thursday, November 07, 2013 6:44 PM
>         *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
>         questions); Jiang, Yunhong; Robert Li (baoli); Irena
>         Berezovsky; prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>;
>         chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>         *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>         pass-through network support
>
>         Hi,
>
>              The discussions during the summit were very productive.
>         Now, we are ready to setup our IRC meeting.
>
>         Here are some slots that look like they might work for us.
>
>         1. Wed 2 – 3 pm UTC.
>
>         2. Thursday 12 – 1 pm UTC.
>
>         3. Thursday 7 – 8pm UTC.
>
>         Please vote.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Sandhya
>
>         *From: *Sandhya Dasu <sadasu at cisco.com <mailto:sadasu at cisco.com>>
>         *Reply-To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
>         questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>         <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
>         *Date: *Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12:03 PM
>         *To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
>         questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>         <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Jiang, Yunhong"
>         <yunhong.jiang at intel.com <mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com>>,
>         "Robert Li (baoli)" <baoli at cisco.com
>         <mailto:baoli at cisco.com>>, Irena Berezovsky
>         <irenab at mellanox.com <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>>,
>         "prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>"
>         <prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>>,
>         "chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>"
>         <chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>>, "He, Yongli"
>         <yongli.he at intel.com <mailto:yongli.he at intel.com>>, Itzik
>         Brown <ItzikB at mellanox.com <mailto:ItzikB at mellanox.com>>
>         *Subject: *Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>         pass-through network support
>
>         Just to clarify, the discussion is planned for 10 AM Wednesday
>         morning at the developer's lounge.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Sandhya
>
>         *From: *Sandhya Dasu <sadasu at cisco.com <mailto:sadasu at cisco.com>>
>         *Reply-To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
>         questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>         <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
>         *Date: *Tuesday, November 5, 2013 11:38 AM
>         *To: *"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
>         questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>         <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Jiang, Yunhong"
>         <yunhong.jiang at intel.com <mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com>>,
>         "Robert Li (baoli)" <baoli at cisco.com
>         <mailto:baoli at cisco.com>>, Irena Berezovsky
>         <irenab at mellanox.com <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>>,
>         "prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>"
>         <prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>>,
>         "chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>"
>         <chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>>, "He, Yongli"
>         <yongli.he at intel.com <mailto:yongli.he at intel.com>>, Itzik
>         Brown <ItzikB at mellanox.com <mailto:ItzikB at mellanox.com>>
>         *Subject: *Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>         pass-through network support
>
>         *Hi,*
>
>         *    We are planning to have a discussion at the developer's
>         lounge tomorrow morning at 10:00 am. Please feel free to drop
>         by if you are interested.*
>
>         *Thanks,*
>
>         *Sandhya*
>
>         *From: *<Jiang>, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang at intel.com
>         <mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com>>
>
>         *Date: *Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:21 PM
>         *To: *"Robert Li (baoli)" <baoli at cisco.com
>         <mailto:baoli at cisco.com>>, Irena Berezovsky
>         <irenab at mellanox.com <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>>,
>         "prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>"
>         <prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>>,
>         "chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>"
>         <chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>>, "He, Yongli"
>         <yongli.he at intel.com <mailto:yongli.he at intel.com>>, Itzik
>         Brown <ItzikB at mellanox.com <mailto:ItzikB at mellanox.com>>
>         *Cc: *OpenStack Development Mailing List
>         <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>         <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Brian Bowen
>         (brbowen)" <brbowen at cisco.com <mailto:brbowen at cisco.com>>,
>         "Kyle Mestery (kmestery)" <kmestery at cisco.com
>         <mailto:kmestery at cisco.com>>, Sandhya Dasu <sadasu at cisco.com
>         <mailto:sadasu at cisco.com>>
>         *Subject: *RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>         pass-through network support
>
>         Robert, I think your change request for pci alias should be
>         covered by the extra infor enhancement.
>         https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-extra-info
>          and Yongli is working on it.
>
>         I’m not sure how the port profile is passed to the connected
>         switch, is it a Cisco VMEFX specific method or libvirt method?
>         Sorry I’m not well on network side.
>
>         --jyh
>
>         *From:*Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:baoli at cisco.com]
>         *Sent:* Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:13 AM
>         *To:* Irena Berezovsky; Jiang, Yunhong;
>         prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>         <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>;
>         chris.friesen at windriver.com
>         <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>         *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>         (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>         *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>         pass-through network support
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Regarding physical network mapping,  This is what I thought.
>
>         consider the following scenarios:
>
>            1. a compute node with SRIOV only interfaces attached to a
>         physical network. the node is connected to one upstream switch
>
>            2. a compute node with both SRIOV interfaces and non-SRIOV
>         interfaces attached to a physical network. the node is
>         connected to one upstream switch
>
>            3. in addition to case 1 &2, a compute node may have
>         multiple vNICs that are connected to different upstream switches.
>
>         CASE 1:
>
>          -- the mapping from a virtual network (in terms of neutron)
>         to a physical network is actually done by binding a port
>         profile to a neutron port. With cisco's VM-FEX, a port profile
>         is associated with one or multiple vlans. Once the neutron
>         port is bound with this port-profile in the upstream switch,
>         it's effectively plugged into the physical network.
>
>          -- since the compute node is connected to one upstream
>         switch, the existing nova PCI alias will be sufficient. For
>         example, one can boot a Nova instance that is attached to a
>         SRIOV port with the following command:
>
>                   nova boot —flavor m1.large —image <image-id> --nic
>         net-id=<net>,pci-alias=<alias>,sriov=<direct|macvtap>,port-profile=<profile>
>
>             the net-id will be useful in terms of allocating IP
>         address, enable dhcp, etc that is associated with the network.
>
>         -- the pci-alias specified in the nova boot command is used to
>         create a PCI request for scheduling purpose. a PCI device is
>         bound to a neutron port during the instance build time in the
>         case of nova boot. Before invoking the neutron API to create a
>         port, an allocated PCI device out of a PCI alias will be
>         located from the PCI device list object. This device info
>         among other information will be sent to neutron to create the
>         port.
>
>         CASE 2:
>
>         -- Assume that OVS is used for the non-SRIOV interfaces. An
>         example of configuration with ovs plugin would look like:
>
>         bridge_mappings = physnet1:br-vmfex
>
>         network_vlan_ranges = physnet1:15:17
>
>         tenant_network_type = vlan
>
>             When a neutron network is created, a vlan is either
>         allocated or specified in the neutron net-create command.
>         Attaching a physical interface to the bridge (in the above
>         example br-vmfex) is an administrative task.
>
>         -- to create a Nova instance with non-SRIOV port:
>
>                    nova boot —flavor m1.large —image <image-id> --nic
>         net-id=<net>
>
>         -- to create a Nova instance with SRIOV port:
>
>                    nova boot —flavor m1.large —image <image-id> --nic
>         net-id=<net>,pci-alias=<alias>,sriov=<direct|macvtap>,port-profile=<profile>
>
>             it's essentially the same as in the first case. But since
>         the net-id is already associated with a vlan, the vlan
>         associated with the port-profile must be identical to that
>         vlan. This has to be enforced by neutron.
>
>             again, since the node is connected to one upstream switch,
>         the existing nova PCI alias should be sufficient.
>
>         CASE 3:
>
>         -- A compute node might be connected to multiple upstream
>         switches, with each being a separate network. This means SRIOV
>         PFs/VFs are already implicitly associated with physical
>         networks. In the none-SRIOV case, a physical interface is
>         associated with a physical network by plugging it into that
>         network, and attaching this interface to the ovs bridge that
>         represents this physical network on the compute node. In the
>         SRIOV case, we need a way to group the SRIOV VFs that belong
>         to the same physical networks. The existing nova PCI alias is
>         to facilitate PCI device allocation by associating
>         <product_id, vendor_id> with an alias name. This will no
>         longer be sufficient. But it can be enhanced to achieve our
>         goal. For example, the PCI device domain, bus (if their
>         mapping to vNIC is fixed across boot) may be added into the
>         alias, and the alias name should be corresponding to a list of
>         tuples.
>
>         Another consideration is that a VF or PF might be used on the
>         host for other purposes. For example, it's possible for a
>         neutron DHCP server to be bound with a VF. Therefore, there
>         needs a method to exclude some VFs from a group.  One way is
>         to associate an exclude list with an alias.
>
>         The enhanced PCI alias can be used to support features other
>         than neutron as well. Essentially, a PCI alias can be defined
>         as a group of PCI devices associated with a feature. I'd think
>         that this should be addressed with a separate blueprint.
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Robert
>
>         On 10/30/13 12:59 AM, "Irena Berezovsky" <irenab at mellanox.com
>         <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             Please see my answers inline
>
>             *From:*Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com]
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:17 PM
>             *To:* Irena Berezovsky; Robert Li (baoli);
>             prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>             <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>;
>             chris.friesen at windriver.com
>             <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>             *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>             (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>             *Subject:* RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>             pass-through network support
>
>             Your explanation of the virtual network and physical
>             network is quite clear and should work well. We need
>             change nova code to achieve it, including get the physical
>             network for the virtual network, passing the physical
>             network requirement to the filter properties etc.
>
>             */[IrenaB] /* The physical network is already available to
>             nova at networking/nova/api at as virtual network
>             attribute, it then passed to the VIF driver. We will push
>             soon the fix
>             to:https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1239606; which
>             will provide general support for getting this information.
>
>             For your port method, so you mean we are sure to passing
>             network id to ‘nova boot’ and nova will create the port
>             during VM boot, am I right?  Also, how can nova knows that
>             it need allocate the PCI device for the port? I’d suppose
>             that in SR-IOV NIC environment, user don’t need specify
>             the PCI requirement. Instead, the PCI requirement should
>             come from the network configuration and image property. Or
>             you think user still need passing flavor with pci request?
>
>             */[IrenaB] There are two way to apply port method. One is
>             to pass network id on nova boot and use default type as
>             chosen in the neutron config file for vnic type. Other way
>             is to define port with required vnic type and other
>             properties if applicable, and run ‘nova boot’ with port id
>             argument. Going forward with nova support for PCI devices
>             awareness, we do need a way impact scheduler choice to
>             land VM on suitable Host with available PC device that has
>             the required connectivity./*
>
>             --jyh
>
>             *From:*Irena Berezovsky [mailto:irenab at mellanox.com]
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:17 AM
>             *To:* Jiang, Yunhong; Robert Li (baoli);
>             prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>             <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>;
>             chris.friesen at windriver.com
>             <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>             *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>             (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>             *Subject:* RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>             pass-through network support
>
>             Hi Jiang, Robert,
>
>             IRC meeting option works for me.
>
>             If I understand your question below, you are looking for a
>             way to tie up between requested virtual network(s) and
>             requested PCI device(s). The way we did it in our
>             solution  is to map a provider:physical_network to an
>             interface that represents the Physical Function. Every
>             virtual network is bound to the provider:physical_network,
>             so the PCI device should be allocated based on this
>             mapping.  We can  map a PCI alias to the
>             provider:physical_network.
>
>             Another topic to discuss is where the mapping between
>             neutron port and PCI device should be managed. One way to
>             solve it, is to propagate the allocated PCI device details
>             to neutron on port creation.
>
>             In case  there is no qbg/qbh support, VF networking
>             configuration should be applied locally on the Host.
>
>             The question is when and how to apply networking
>             configuration on the PCI device?
>
>             We see the following options:
>
>             ·it can be done on port creation.
>
>             ·It can be done when nova VIF driver is called for vNIC
>             plugging. This will require to  have all networking
>             configuration available to the VIF driver or send request
>             to the neutron server to obtain it.
>
>             ·It can be done by  having a dedicated L2 neutron agent on
>             each Host that scans for allocated PCI devices  and then
>             retrieves networking configuration from the server and
>             configures the device. The agent will be also responsible
>             for managing update requests coming from the neutron server.
>
>             For macvtap vNIC type assignment, the networking
>             configuration can be applied by a dedicated L2 neutron agent.
>
>             BR,
>
>             Irena
>
>             *From:*Jiang, Yunhong [mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com]
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:04 AM
>
>
>             *To:* Robert Li (baoli); Irena Berezovsky;
>             prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>             <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>;
>             chris.friesen at windriver.com
>             <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>             *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>             (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>             *Subject:* RE: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>             pass-through network support
>
>             Robert, is it possible to have a IRC meeting? I’d prefer
>             to IRC meeting because it’s more openstack style and also
>             can keep the minutes clearly.
>
>             To your flow, can you give more detailed example. For
>             example, I can consider user specify the instance with
>             –nic option specify a network id, and then how nova device
>             the requirement to the PCI device? I assume the network id
>             should define the switches that the device can connect to
>             , but how is that information translated to the PCI
>             property requirement? Will this translation happen before
>             the nova scheduler make host decision?
>
>             Thanks
>
>             --jyh
>
>             *From:*Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:baoli at cisco.com]
>             *Sent:* Monday, October 28, 2013 12:22 PM
>             *To:* Irena Berezovsky; prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>             <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>; Jiang, Yunhong;
>             chris.friesen at windriver.com
>             <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>; He, Yongli; Itzik Brown
>             *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>             (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>             *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>             pass-through network support
>
>             Hi Irena,
>
>             Thank you very much for your comments. See inline.
>
>             --Robert
>
>             On 10/27/13 3:48 AM, "Irena Berezovsky"
>             <irenab at mellanox.com <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Hi Robert,
>
>                 Thank you very much for sharing the information
>                 regarding your efforts. Can you please share your idea
>                 of the end to end flow? How do you suggest  to bind
>                 Nova and Neutron?
>
>             The end to end flow is actually encompassed in the
>             blueprints in a nutshell. I will reiterate it in below.
>             The binding between Nova and Neutron occurs with the
>             neutron v2 API that nova invokes in order to provision the
>             neutron services. The vif driver is responsible for
>             plugging in an instance onto the networking setup that
>             neutron has created on the host.
>
>             Normally, one will invoke "nova boot" api with the —nic
>             options to specify the nic with which the instance will be
>             connected to the network. It currently allows net-id,
>             fixed ip and/or port-id to be specified for the option.
>             However, it doesn't allow one to specify special
>             networking requirements for the instance. Thanks to the
>             nova pci-passthrough work, one can specify PCI passthrough
>             device(s) in the nova flavor. But it doesn't provide means
>             to tie up these PCI devices in the case of ethernet
>             adpators with networking services. Therefore the idea is
>             actually simple as indicated by the blueprint titles, to
>             provide means to tie up SRIOV devices with neutron
>             services. A work flow would roughly look like this for
>             'nova boot':
>
>                   -- Specifies networking requirements in the —nic
>             option. Specifically for SRIOV, allow the following to be
>             specified in addition to the existing required information:
>
>                            . PCI alias
>
>                            . direct pci-passthrough/macvtap
>
>                            . port profileid that is compliant with
>             802.1Qbh
>
>                     The above information is optional. In the absence
>             of them, the existing behavior remains.
>
>                  -- if special networking requirements exist, Nova api
>             creates PCI requests in the nova instance type for
>             scheduling purpose
>
>                  -- Nova scheduler schedules the instance based on the
>             requested flavor plus the PCI requests that are created
>             for networking.
>
>                  -- Nova compute invokes neutron services with PCI
>             passthrough information if any
>
>                  --  Neutron performs its normal operations based on
>             the request, such as allocating a port, assigning ip
>             addresses, etc. Specific to SRIOV, it should validate the
>             information such as profileid, and stores them in its db.
>             It's also possible to associate a port profileid with a
>             neutron network so that port profileid becomes optional in
>             the —nic option. Neutron returns  nova the port
>             information, especially for PCI passthrough related
>             information in the port binding object. Currently, the
>             port binding object contains the following information:
>
>             binding:vif_type
>
>             binding:host_id
>
>             binding:profile
>
>             binding:capabilities
>
>                 -- nova constructs the domain xml and plug in the
>             instance by calling the vif driver. The vif driver can
>             build up the interface xml based on the port binding
>             information.
>
>                 The blueprints you registered make sense. On Nova
>                 side, there is a need to bind between requested
>                 virtual network and PCI device/interface to be
>                 allocated as vNIC.
>
>                 On the Neutron side, there is a need to  support
>                 networking configuration of the vNIC. Neutron should
>                 be able to identify the PCI device/macvtap interface
>                 in order to apply configuration. I think it makes
>                 sense to provide neutron integration via dedicated
>                 Modular Layer 2 Mechanism Driver to allow PCI
>                 pass-through vNIC support along with other networking
>                 technologies.
>
>             I haven't sorted through this yet. A neutron port could be
>             associated with a PCI device or not, which is a common
>             feature, IMHO. However, a ML2 driver may be needed
>             specific to a particular SRIOV technology.
>
>                 During the Havana Release, we introduced Mellanox
>                 Neutron plugin that enables networking via SRIOV
>                 pass-through devices or macvtap interfaces.
>
>                 We want to integrate our solution with PCI
>                 pass-through Nova support.  I will be glad to share
>                 more details if you are interested.
>
>             Good to know that you already have a SRIOV implementation.
>             I found out some information online about the mlnx plugin,
>             but need more time to get to know it better. And certainly
>             I'm interested in knowing its details.
>
>                 The PCI pass-through networking support is planned to
>                 be discussed during the summit:
>                 http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/129. I think
>                 it’s worth to drill down into more detailed proposal
>                 and present it during the summit, especially since it
>                 impacts both nova and neutron projects.
>
>             I agree. Maybe we can steal some time in that discussion.
>
>                 Would you be interested in collaboration on this
>                 effort? Would you be interested to exchange more
>                 emails or set an IRC/WebEx meeting during this week
>                 before the summit?
>
>             Sure. If folks want to discuss it before the summit, we
>             can schedule a webex later this week. Or otherwise, we can
>             continue the discussion with email.
>
>                 Regards,
>
>                 Irena
>
>                 *From:*Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:baoli at cisco.com]
>                 *Sent:* Friday, October 25, 2013 11:16 PM
>                 *To:* prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com
>                 <mailto:prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com>; Irena
>                 Berezovsky; yunhong.jiang at intel.com
>                 <mailto:yunhong.jiang at intel.com>;
>                 chris.friesen at windriver.com
>                 <mailto:chris.friesen at windriver.com>;
>                 yongli.he at intel.com <mailto:yongli.he at intel.com>
>                 *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List; Brian Bowen
>                 (brbowen); Kyle Mestery (kmestery); Sandhya Dasu (sadasu)
>                 *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI
>                 pass-through network support
>
>                 Hi Irena,
>
>                 This is Robert Li from Cisco Systems. Recently, I was
>                 tasked to investigate such support for Cisco's systems
>                 that support VM-FEX, which is a SRIOV technology
>                 supporting 802-1Qbh. I was able to bring up nova
>                 instances with SRIOV interfaces, and establish
>                 networking in between the instances that employes the
>                 SRIOV interfaces. Certainly, this was accomplished
>                 with hacking and some manual intervention. Based on
>                 this experience and my study with the two existing
>                 nova pci-passthrough blueprints that have been
>                 implemented and committed into Havana
>                 (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base and
>                 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-libvirt),
>                  I registered a couple of blueprints (one on Nova
>                 side, the other on the Neutron side):
>
>                 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-sriov
>
>                 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/pci-passthrough-sriov
>
>                 in order to address SRIOV support in openstack.
>
>                 Please take a look at them and see if they make sense,
>                 and let me know any comments and questions. We can
>                 also discuss this in the summit, I suppose.
>
>                 I noticed that there is another thread on this topic,
>                 so copy those folks  from that thread as well.
>
>                 thanks,
>
>                 Robert
>
>                 On 10/16/13 4:32 PM, "Irena Berezovsky"
>                 <irenab at mellanox.com <mailto:irenab at mellanox.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Hi,
>
>                     As one of the next steps for PCI pass-through I
>                     would like to discuss is the support for PCI
>                     pass-through vNIC.
>
>                     While nova takes care of PCI pass-through device
>                     resources  management and VIF settings, neutron
>                     should manage their networking configuration.
>
>                     I would like to register asummit proposal to
>                     discuss the support for PCI pass-through networking.
>
>                     I am not sure what would be the right topic to
>                     discuss the PCI pass-through networking, since it
>                     involve both nova and neutron.
>
>                     There is already a session registered by Yongli on
>                     nova topic to discuss the PCI pass-through next
>                     steps.
>
>                     I think PCI pass-through networking is quite a big
>                     topic and it worth to have a separate discussion.
>
>                     Is there any other people who are interested to
>                     discuss it and share their thoughts and experience?
>
>                     Regards,
>
>                     Irena
>

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