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

Mathieu Rohon mathieu.rohon at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 09:04:59 UTC 2016


Hi cathy,

at net-bgpvpn, we're very interested in this effort. Please, keep us in the
loop.

Mathieu

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Haim Daniel <hdaniel at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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