[Openstack] [Neutron] issue setting MTU after icehouse upgrade.

Jonathan Proulx jon at jonproulx.com
Tue Jul 22 19:45:16 UTC 2014


To answer my own question...

the qbr devices are created by nova-network not neutron so their
configuration needs to go on nova.conf:

[default]/network_device_mtu=9000

so yay two place to enter the same value for the same purpose

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I testing upgrade from Havana to Icehouse.  This is changing a number
> of networking related things so not sure which is my problem.  My goal
> is to maintain my current production state jumbo frames network.
>
> In Havana production I'm using openvswitch plugin, but not
> LibvirtHybridOVSBridgeDriver, so tap devices are directly on ovs
> bridges.  I have veth_mtu set in [agent] section of
> ovs_neutron_plugin.ini and all devices get created with the correct
> MTU.
>
> In Icehouse I've migrated to ML2, still with ovs and added
> OVSHybridIptablesFirewallDriver so now I have the qbr|qvb|qvo devices
> as well.  I copied the veth_mtu into the [agent] section of
> ml2_conf.ini (which is what openvswitch-agent init file is sourcing on
> startup) but all interfaces are being created with standard 1500 MTU.
> This include the tap devices on the network node for dhcp-agents
> (which are associated with qbr devices) and the tap,qbr,qvb,qvo
> devices associated with instances on compute nodes (the OVS devices
> int-br, eth1-br, etc all have jumbo MTU).
>
> Is this my configuration, a bug, or expected behaviour?  Strongly
> hoping for the first option...
>
> Thanks,
> -Jon




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