[openstack-dev] [neutron] [QoS] QoS weekly meeting

Salvatore Orlando sorlando at nicira.com
Mon Apr 6 23:04:06 UTC 2015


On 7 April 2015 at 00:33, Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 6 April 2015 at 08:56, Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>  I’d like to co-organized a QoS weekly meeting with Sean M. Collins,
>>
>>     In the last few years, the interest for QoS support has increased,
>> Sean has been leading
>> this effort [1] and we believe we should get into a consensus about how
>> to model an extension
>> to let vendor plugins implement QoS capabilities on network ports and
>> tenant networks, and
>> how to extend agents, and the reference implementation & others [2]
>>
>
As you surely know, so far every attempt to achieve a consensus has failed
in a pretty miserable way.
This mostly because "QoS" can be interpreted in a lot of different ways,
both from the conceptual and practical perspective.
It is important in my opinion to clearly define the goals first. For
instance a simple extensions for bandwidth limiting could be a reasonable
target for the Liberty release.
Moving things such as ECN into "future works" is the right thing to do in
my opinion. Attempting to define a flexible framework that can deal with
advanced QoS policies specification is a laudable effort, but I am a bit
skeptical about its feasibility.



>
>>     As per discussion we’ve had during the last few months [3], I believe
>> we should start simple, but
>> prepare a model allowing future extendibility, to allow for example
>> specific traffic rules (per port,
>> per IP, etc..), congestion notification support [4], …
>>
>
"Simple" in my mind is even more extreme then what you're proposing here...
I'd start with bare APIs for specifying bandwidth limiting, and then phase
them out once this "framework" is in place.
Also note that this kind of design bears some overlap with the flavor
framework which is probably going to be another goal for Liberty.

Morever, consider using "common" tools such as the specs repo to share and
discuss design documents.


>
>>     It’s the first time I’m trying to organize an openstack/neutron
>> meeting, so, I don’t know what’s the
>> best way to do it, or find the best timeslot. I guess interested people
>> may have a saying, so I’ve
>> looped anybody I know is interested in the CC of this mail.
>>
>
> I think that's a good idea. Incidentally I was speaking with Sean
> regarding Summit session [1], and we were hoping we could get some folks
> together either prior or during the summit, to try and get some momentum
> going behind this initiative, once again.
>

I think is a good idea as well.  I was thinking that perhaps it might be a
good idea to grab a design summit session as well (surely not a fishbowl
one as they're totally unfit for this purpose).
However, it might be good to achieve some sort of consensus before the
summit, as as we know fairly well now the summit is probably the worst
place where consensus can be achieved!


> We'd need to fill in page [2], and find an empty slot on [3]
>
> Thanks for starting this thread!
>
> [1]
> https://openstacksummitmay2015vancouver.sched.org/event/27eeef71d5f57997ac09b4c7783c72fe#.VSMIzJT-NhM
>
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NeutronSubTeams
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings
>
>
>
>>
>> Miguel Ángel Ajo
>>
>> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/quantum-qos-api
>> [2]
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2XATqL7DxHFRHNjU3k1UFNYRjQ/view?usp=sharing
>> [3]
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUx0Oq-txz_qVA2eYE1kIAJlwxGCSqXHgQEEGylwlZE/edit#heading=h.2pdgqfl3a231
>> [4]
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/explicit-congestion-notification
>>
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