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Fixed neutron tag in the subject.

Marc <marc at koderer.com> wrote:

> Hi Neutron team,
>
> I am currently working on a feature for hierarchical port binding support  
> in
> Manila [1] [2]. Just to give some context: In the current implementation  
> Manila
> creates a neutron port but let it unbound (state DOWN). Therefore Manila  
> uses
> the port create only retrieve an IP address and segmentation ID (some  
> drivers
> only support VLAN here).
>
> My idea is to change this behavior and do an actual port binding action  
> so that
> the configuration of VLAN isn’t a manual job any longer. And that  
> multi-segment
> and HPB is supported on the long-run.
>
> My current issue is: How can Manila retrieve the segment information for a
> bound port? Manila only is interested in the last (bottom) segmentation ID
> since I assume the storage is connected to a ToR switch.
>
> Database-wise it’s possible to query it using ml2_port_binding_levels  
> table.
> But AFAIK there is no API to query this. The only information that is  
> exposed
> are all segments of a network. But this is not sufficient to identify which
> segments actually used for a port binding.
>
> Regards
> Marc
> SAP SE
>
> [1]:  
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Manila/design/manila-newton-hpb-support
> [2]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/277731/
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