[openstack-dev] [networking][ml2] ML2 Mechanism Driver API proposal

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Tue Jun 18 13:28:16 UTC 2013


On Jun 18, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke at tail-f.com> wrote:
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> 12 jun 2013 kl. 09:25 skrev Andre Pech:
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>> As promised at the ml2 kickoff meeting last week, attached is our basic proposal for the ml2 mechanism driver API.
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> Great, that is fast work!
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>> After getting more familiar with the ml2 plugin code and looking at some of the other blueprints that are looking to make use of the MechanismDriver, we've instead gone with a more simple passthrough model using the existing plugin language of create_network / update_network / delete_network / create_port / update_port / delete_port.
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> Is it intentional to exclude create_subnet / update_subnet / delete_subnet, which are also a part of the QuantumPluginBaseV2 API?
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> We have currently included Subnets in the data model that we want to synchronize via our mechanism driver. So I would like to either include these subnet-related callbacks in the MechanisnDriver API, or find a good reason to eliminate Subnets from our data model so that they don't need to be synchronized.
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> Kyle, do you guys have the same issue with the OpenDaylight plugin?
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We will want subnets for the ODL ML2 driver as well, so I think we'll want them here as well. Luke, maybe add these comments into the MechanismDriver review here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/33201/6

Thanks,
Kyle

> Thanks very much Andre & Arista gang for hacking this up so quickly. I am excited to get started on our mechanism driver.
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> Cheers,
> -Luke
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