<div dir="ltr"><div><div><p id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-290ad25f-adb6-d7b9-04bb-0886f85cac3f" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hello Community,</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ironic and Neutron projects have become integrated even closer with multitenancy implementation in Ironic.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">There are 2 bugs that require separate ML2 driver specifically for Ironic needs:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Booting ironic instance, Neutron port remains in down state [0]</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ironic needs to synchronize port status change events with Neutron [1]</span></p></li></ul><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I was told (commented) that keeping code in Neutron tree is not right approach [2]. Of course I agree that Neutron has powerful and flexible support of out-of-tree ML2 drivers and such functionality must be a separate ML2 plugin.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">So the question to consult with the whole community: </span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Do we need a new networking-ironic-* ML2 driver? </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">To fix [0] and [1] we can use existing </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">networking-generic-switch</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> [3]</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ML2 driver [4,5]. It was designed specially for Ironic case. It already helps us to test Ironic multitenancy on the gates.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">My team would prefer supporting one driver without multiplying entities. </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[0]</span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1599836"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1599836</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[1] </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1304673"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1304673</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[2] </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1610898"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1610898</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[3] </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://github.com/openstack/networking-generic-switch"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://github.com/openstack/networking-generic-switch</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[4] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/357779">https://review.openstack.org/357779</a><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">[5] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/357780">https://review.openstack.org/357780</a><br></span></p><br><br></div>Sincerely,<br></div>Vasyl Saienko<br></div>