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VLAN is on the radar, vxlan/gre was done to start with.

I believe Vivek mentioned the rationale in some other thread. The gist
of it below:

In the current architecture, we use a unique DVR MAC per compute node
to forward DVR Routed traffic directly to destination compute node.
The DVR routed traffic from the source compute node will carry
'destination VMs underlay VLAN' in the frame, but the Source Mac in
that same frame will be the DVR Unique MAC. So, same DVR Unique Mac is
used for potentially a number of overlay network VMs that would exist
on that same source compute node.

The underlay infrastructure switches will see the same DVR Unique MAC
being associated with different VLANs on incoming frames, and so this
would result in VLAN Thrashing on the switches in the physical cloud
infrastructure. Since tunneling protocols carry the entire DVR routed
inner frames as tunnel payloads, there is no thrashing effect on
underlay switches.

There will still be thrashing effect on endpoints on CNs themselves,
when they try to learn that association between inner frame source MAC
and the TEP port on which the tunneled frame is received. But that we
have addressed in L2 Agent by having a 'DVR Learning Blocker' table,
which ensures that learning for DVR routed packets alone is
side-stepped.

As a result, VLAN was not promoted as a supported underlay for the
initial DVR architecture.

Cheers,
Armando

On 16 September 2014 20:35, 龚永生 <gongysh at unitedstack.com> wrote:
> I think the VLAN should also be supported later.  The tunnel should not be
> the prerequisite for the DVR feature.
>
>
> ------------------ Original ------------------
> From:  "Steve Wormley"<openstack at wormley.com>;
> Date:  Wed, Sep 17, 2014 10:29 AM
> To:  "openstack-dev"<openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>;
> Subject:  [openstack-dev] [neutron] DVR Tunnel Design Question
>
> In our environment using VXLAN/GRE would make it difficult to keep some of
> the features we currently offer our customers. So for a while now I've been
> looking at the DVR code, blueprints and Google drive docs and other than it
> being the way the code was written I can't find anything indicating why a
> Tunnel/Overlay network is required for DVR or what problem it was solving.
>
> Basically I'm just trying to see if I missed anything as I look into doing a
> VLAN/OVS implementation.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve Wormley
>
>
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