[openstack-dev] [nova] Feature Freeze Exception Request (libvirt vhostuser vif driver)

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 09:36:51 UTC 2015


On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 10:04:49AM +0000, Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request FFE for vhostuser vif driver.
> 
> 2 reviews : https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:master+topic:bp/libvirt-vif-vhost-user,n,z
> 
> BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-vif-vhost-user
> Spec: https://review.openstack.org/138736
> 
> Blueprint was approved but it's status was changed because of FF.
> Vhostuser is a Qemu feature that allows fastpath into the VM for userspace vSwitches.
> The changes are small and mostly contained to libvirt driver.
> Vhostuser support was proposed for Juno by Snabb switch guys but didn't make it,
> this implementation supports their usecase as well .

As Nikola says, this is self-contained code, and a pretty simple bit of
code to understand, so should be straightforward to merge. So I'm happy
to sponsor it.

Regards,
Daniel
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