[openstack-dev] Why ML2 does not supprot update network provider attributes

Kevin Benton kevin at benton.pub
Mon Nov 7 17:40:44 UTC 2016


True. I think if you just want to add segments, making use of the new
segments API added as part of the routed networks work would be the way to
go.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Robert Kukura <kukura at noironetworks.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure unbinding ports is necessary unless the segment that a port
> has bound is removed or modified. A reasonable compromise might be for ML2
> to allow adding new segments, which should not require unbinding/rebinding
> ports, but not allow removing or modifying existing segments.
>
> -Bob
>
> On 11/5/16 7:59 PM, Kevin Benton wrote:
>
> To allow that we would have to unbind every port in the network and then
> rebind it with the new segment info generated from changing the provider
> attributes. This requires quite a bit of orchestration code in ML2 (to
> handle failures, etc) that doesn't exist right now.
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:50 AM, zhuna <juno.zhu at huawei.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear,
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>> Neutron RESTful API support update network provider attributes, but ML2
>> raises error when update network provider attributes (in function
>> _raise_if_updates_provider_attributes), can anyone tell me why ML2 does
>> not support it?
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>> BR
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>> Juno
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