[openstack-dev] [puppet] Request to add puppet-dpdk module

Saravanan KR skramaja at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 12:18:55 UTC 2016


Thanks Emilien. I definitely agree with the preference for (1). It is
simpler in choosing either vswitch::ovs or vswitch::dpdk for the
deployment.

Regards,
Saravanan KR

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Emilien Macchi <emilien at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Saravanan KR <skramaja at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Also, there is a repository networking-ovs-dpdk[1] for all the dpdk
>> related changes including puppet. We considered both (puppet-vswitch
>> and networking-ovs-dpdk).
>>
>> And we had chat with Emilien about this. His suggestion is to have it
>> as a separate project to make the modules cleaner like 'puppet-dpdk'.
>
> Right, either way would work for me with a slight preference for 1):
> 1) Try to re-use openstack/puppet-vswitch to add dpdk bits (could be fast)
> 2) Move your module to Puppet OpenStack tent (lot of process)
>
> Looking at the code:
> https://github.com/krsacme/puppet-dpdk/blob/master/manifests/config.pp
>
> I honestly thing option 1) is simpler for everyone. You could add a
> vswitch::dpdk class in puppet-vswitch with your bits, and that's it.
>
> What do you think?
>
>> Regards,
>> Saravanan KR
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/openstack/networking-ovs-dpdk
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Saravanan KR <skramaja at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We are working on blueprint [1] to integrate DPDK with tripleo. In the
>>>> process, we are planning to add a new puppet module "puppet-dpdk" for the
>>>> required puppet changes.
>>>>
>>>> The initial version of the repository is at github [2]. Note that the
>>>> changes are
>>>> not
>>>> complete yet. It is in progress.
>>>>
>>>> Please let us know your views on including this new module.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Saravanan KR
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tripleo/+spec/tripleo-ovs-dpdk
>>>> [2] https://github.com/krsacme/puppet-dpdk
>>>
>>>
>>> I took a quick look at Emilien's request.  In general, including this
>>> functionality in the puppet openstack project makes sense to me.
>>>
>>> It looks like this is installing and configuring openvswitch-dpdk.  Have you
>>> considered integrating DPDK awareness into the existing puppet-vswitch that
>>> configures openvswitch?  Why is a separate puppet-dpdk needed?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Russell Bryant
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