[openstack-dev] [neutron] work on Common Flow Classifier and OVS Agent extension for Newton cycle

Haim Daniel hdaniel at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 06:59:08 UTC 2016


Hi,

I'd +1 Vikram's comment on neutron-classifier , RFE [1] contains the
original thread about that topic.


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1527671

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:33 AM, Vikram Choudhary <vikschw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cathy,
>
> A project called "neutron-classifier [1]" is also there addressing the
> same use case. Let's sync up and avoid work duplicity.
>
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/neutron-classifier
>
> Thanks
> Vikram
> On Apr 14, 2016 6:40 AM, "Cathy Zhang" <Cathy.H.Zhang at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Per Armando’s request, Louis and I are looking into the following features
> for Newton cycle.
>
> ·         Neutron Common FC used for SFC, QoS, Tap as a service etc.,
>
> ·         OVS Agent extension
>
> Some of you might know that we already developed a FC in networking-sfc
> project and QoS also has a FC. It makes sense that we have one common FC in
> Neutron that could be shared by SFC, QoS, Tap as a service etc. features in
> Neutron.
>
> Different features may extend OVS agent and add different new OVS flow
> tables to support their new functionality. A mechanism is needed to ensure
> consistent OVS flow table modification when multiple features co-exist.
> AFAIK, there is some preliminary work on this, but it is not a complete
> solution yet.
>
> We will like to start these effort by collecting requirements and then
> posting specifications for review. If any of you would like to join this
> effort, please chime in. We can set up a meet-up session in the Summit to
> discuss this face-in-face.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cathy
>
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