[openstack-dev] [Neutron][OVS Agent]

Nader Lahouti nader.lahouti at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 15:37:16 UTC 2014


Thanks Mathieu for your reply and info.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Mathieu Rohon <mathieu.rohon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi nader,
>
> The easiest way would be to register a new RPC callback in the current
> ovs agent. This is what we have done for the l2-pop MD, with fdb_add
> and fdb_remove callbacks.
> However, it could become a mess if every MD adds it own callback
> directly into the code of the agent. L2 agent should be able to load
> drivers, which might register new callbacks.
> This could potentially be something to do while refactoring the agent
> : https://review.openstack.org/#/c/57627/
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Nader Lahouti <nader.lahouti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In a multi-node setup, I'm using Ml2Plugin (as core plugin) and OVS
> > (OVSNeutronAgent) as an agent on compute nodes. From controller I need to
> > call a *new method* on agent ( on all compute nodes - using  RPC), to
> > perform a task (i.e. to communicate with an external process). As I need
> to
> > use OVSNeutronAgent, I am thinking the following as potential solution
> for
> > adding the new method to the agent:
> > 1. Create new plugin based on existing OVS agent - That means cloning
> > OVSNeutronAgent and add the new method to that.
> > 2. Create new plugin, which inherits OVSNeutronPlugin - the new plugin
> > defines the new method, setup_rpc,...
> > 3. Add the new method to the existing OVSNeutronAgent
> >
> > Please let me know your thought and comments.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nader.
> >
> >
> >
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