[openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Na Zhu
nazhu at cn.ibm.com
Tue Jun 14 02:38:39 UTC 2016
Hi John,
My github account is JunoZhu, pls add me as member of your private repo.
If you submit WIP patch today, then i can update your WIP patch, no need
to update your private repo.
If not, i will update your private repo.
Thanks.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Srilatha Tangirala
<srilatta at us.ibm.com>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: 2016/06/13 23:55
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Juno,
What ever is easiest for you ¨C I can submit WIP patches today for
networking-ovn and networking-ovs. If you send me your github login I will
add you as a collaborator to my private repo.
I am currently working on getting the changes into ovs/ovn ovn-northd.c to
support the new schema ¨C hopefully today or tomorrow. Most of the IDL is
in and I can get info from networking-sfc to ovs/ovn northd.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Srilatha Tangirala <
srilatta at us.ibm.com>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage
questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
I know you are busy recently, sorry to disturb you. I want to ask you
whether I can submit patch to your private repo, I test your code changes
and find some minor errors, I think we can work together to make the debug
work done faster, then you can submit the WIP patch.
What do you think?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List \(not for usage questions\)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org>
Date: 2016/06/09 16:18
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
I know most of the OVN driver codes are copied from OVS driver, OVN driver
is different from OVS driver. For OVS driver, it should build the sfc
flows and send to ovs agent, while OVN controller does not need to do it,
OVN controller only need send the sfc parameters to OVN northbound DB,
then ovn-controller can build the sfc flow.
networking-sfc defines some common APIs for each driver, see
networking_sfc/services/sfc/drivers/base.py, I think for OVN, we only need
write the methods about port-chain create/update/delete, and leave other
method empty, What do you think?
If you agree with me, you have to refactor the OVN sfc driver, do you want
me to do it?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Amitabha Biswas <azbiswas at gmail.com>
Cc: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com
>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org>
Date: 2016/06/09 00:53
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [openstack-dev] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Amitabha,
Thanks for looking at it . I took the suggestion from Juno and implemented
it. I think it is a good solution as it minimizes impact on both
networking-ovn and networking-sfc. I have updated my repos, if you have
suggestions for improvements let me know.
I agree that there needs to be some refactoring of the networking-sfc
driver code. I think the team did a good job with it as it was easy for me
to create the OVN driver ( copy and paste). As more drivers are created I
think the model will get polished and refactored.
Regards
John
From: Amitabha Biswas <azbiswas at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 11:36 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>,
"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [openstack-dev] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
Looking at the code with Srilatha, it seems like the
https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-ovnrepo has gone down the path of
having a sfc_ovn.py file in the networking-ovn/ovsdb directory. This file
deals with the SFC specific OVSDB transactions in OVN. So to answer your
question of invoking OVS-IDL, we can import the src_ovn.py file from
networking_sfc/services/src/drivers/ovn/driver.py and invoke calls into
IDL.
Another aspect from a networking-sfc point of view is the duplication of
code between networking_sfc/services/src/drivers/ovn/driver.py and
networking_sfc/services/src/drivers/ovs/driver.py in the
https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-sfcrepo. There should be a
mechanism to coalesce the common code and invoke the OVS and OVN specific
parts separately.
Regards
Amitabha
On Jun 7, 2016, at 9:54 PM, John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
wrote:
Juno, Srilatha,
I need some help ¨C I have fixed most of the obvious typo¡¯s in the three
repos and merged them with mainline. There is still a problem with the
build I think in mech_driver.py but I will fix it asap in the am.
However I am not sure of the best way to interface between sfc and ovn.
In networking_sfc/services/src/drivers/ovn/driver.py there is a function
that creates a deep copy of the port-chain dict,
create_port_chain(self,contact,port_chain).
Looking at networking-ovn I think it should use mech_driver.py so we can
call the OVS-IDL to send the parameters to ovn. However I am not sure of
the best way to do it. Could you make some suggestions or send me some
sample code showing the best approach?
I will get the ovs/ovn cleaned up and ready. Also Louis from the
networking-sfc has posted a draft blueprint.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7:54 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>, Ryan Moats <
rmoats at us.ibm.com>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Srilatha Tangirala <
srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
I do not know any better approach, I think it is good to write all the
parameters in the creation of a port chain, this can avoid saving many
data in northbound db which are not used. We can do it in that way
currently, if the community has opposite ideas, we can change, what do you
think?
Hi Ryan,
Do you agree with that?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Ryan Moats
<rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: 2016/06/06 23:36
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Juno,
Let me check ¨C my intention was that the networking-sfc OVNB driver would
configure all aspects of the port-chain and add the parameters to the
networking-sfc db. Once all the parameters were in the creation of a
port-chain would call networking-ovn (passing a deep copy of the
port-chain dict). Here I see networking-ovn acting only as a bridge into
ovs/ovn (I did not add anything in the ovn plugin ¨C not sure if that is
the right approach). Networking-ovn calls into ovs/ovn and inserts the
entire port-chain.
Thoughts?
j
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Monday, June 6, 2016 at 5:49 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Ryan Moats <
rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
One question need confirm with you, I think the ovn flow classifier driver
and ovn port chain driver should call the APIs which you add to
networking-ovn to configure the northbound db sfc tables, right? I see
your networking-sfc ovn drivers, they does not call the APIs you add to
networking-ovn, do you miss that?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>, OpenStack Development
Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats <
rmoats at us.ibm.com>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>
Date: 2016/06/06 14:28
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn]
[networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
John,
Thanks your working overtime in last weekend, now we have the following
works to do:
1, submit design spec to networking-sfc
2, submit the RFC to ovs community
3, debug end-to-end about your code changes.
4, submit the initial patch to networking-sfc
5, submit the initial patch to ovs community
6, submit the initial patch to networking-ovn
Do you have plan to start #1 and #2 now? I think it can be done in
parallel with the other tasks.
Srilatha and I can start #4 and #6, we need to look at your code changes
and write the unit test scripts for your code changes and then submit to
community, what do you think?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats
<rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Date: 2016/06/06 11:35
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC andOVN
Juno and team,
I have written and compiled (but not tested ) the ovs/ovn interface to
networking-ovn and similarly I have written but not tested the IDL
interfaces on the networking-ovn side. I will put it all together tomorrow
and start debugging end to end. I know I am going to find a lot of issues
as it is a major rewrite from my original interface to networking-sfc ¨C it
is the right path (IMHO) just a little more work than I expected.
I have merged my repos with the upstream masters and I will keep them sync
¡¯ed so if you want to take a look and start thinking where you can help
it would be really appreciated.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 6:30 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, OpenStack
Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats <
rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC
andOVN
Hi John,
OK, please keep me posted once you done, thanks very much.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats
<rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Date: 2016/06/03 13:15
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC andOVN
Juno
Whatever gets it done faster- let me get the three repos aligned. I need
to get the ovs/ovn work done so networking-ovn can call it, and the
networking-sfc can call networking-ovn.
Hopefully I will have it done tomorrow or over the weekend - let's touch
base Monday or Sunday night.
Regards
John
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 2, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
Hi John,
I agree with submitting WIP patches to community, because you already did
many works on networking-sfc and networking-ovn, it is better that you
submit the initial patches about networking-sfc and networking-ovn, then
me and Srilatha take over the patches. Do you have time to do it? if not,
me and Srilatha can help to do it and you are always the co-author.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, "OpenStack
Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats
<rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Date: 2016/06/03 00:08
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC andOVN
Juno,
Sure make sense. I will have ovs/ovn in rough shape by end of week
(hopefully) that will allow you to call the interfaces from
networking-ovn. Ryan has asked that we submit WIP patches etc so hopefully
that will kickstart the review process.
Also, hopefully some of the networking-sfc team will also be able to help
¨C I will let them speak for themselves.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 7:02 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, OpenStack
Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ryan Moats <
rmoats at us.ibm.com>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC
andOVN
Hi John,
Thanks your reply.
Seems you have covered everything :)
The development work can be broken down in 3 parts:
1, add ovn driver to networking-sfc
2, provide APIs in networking-ovn for networking-sfc
3, implement the sfc in ovn
So what about we take part 1 and part 2, and you take part 3? because we
are familiar with networking-sfc and networking-ovn and we can do it
faster:)
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>, OpenStack Development Mailing
List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
discuss at openvswitch.org>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Date: 2016/06/01 23:26
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC andOVN
Na/Srilatha,
Great, I am working from three repos:
https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-sfc
https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-ovn
https://github.com/doonhammer/ovs
I had an original prototype working that used an API I created. Since
then, based on feedback from everyone I have been moving the API to the
networking-sfc model and then supporting that API in networking-ovn and
ovs/ovn. I have created a new driver in networking-sfc for ovn.
I am in the process of moving networking-ovn and ovs to support the sfc
model. Basically I am intending to pass a deep copy of the port-chain
(sample attached, sfc_dict.py) from the ovn driver in networking-sfc to
networking-ovn. This , as Ryan pointed out will minimize the dependancies
between networking-sfc and networking-ovn. I have created additional
schema for ovs/ovn (attached) that will provide the linkage between
networking-ovn and ovs/ovn. I have the schema in ovs/ovn and I am in the
process of updating my code to support it.
Not sure where you guys want to jump in ¨C but I can help in any way you
need.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 9:02 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
discuss at openvswitch.org>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC
andOVN
+ Add Srilatha.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: Na Zhu/China/IBM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>, OpenStack Development Mailing
List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
discuss at openvswitch.org>
Date: 2016/06/01 12:01
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC and OVN
John,
Thanks.
Me and Srilatha (srilatta at us.ibm.com) want to working together with you, I
know you already did some development works.
Can you tell me what you have done and put the latest code in your private
repo?
Can we work out a plan and the remaining work?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com
5F, Building 10, 399 Keyuan Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New
District, Shanghai, China (201203)
From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
To: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List <
openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
discuss at openvswitch.org>
Date: 2016/06/01 08:58
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc]
SFC and OVN
Sent by: "discuss" <discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org>
Ryan,
More help is always great :-). As far as who to collaborate, what ever Is
easiest for everyone ¨C I am pretty flexible.
Regards
John
From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:59 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
discuss at openvswitch.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>, OpenStack
Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Russell
Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com> wrote on 05/31/2016
03:21:30 PM:
> From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org"
> <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>,
> "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-
> dev at lists.openstack.org>, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
> Date: 05/31/2016 03:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
>
> Ryan,
>
> Let me add the tables to OVN for SFC. That will give us a working
> system to prototype the flow classifier approach on. Hopefully I can
> get something done by end of week.
>
> Regards
>
> John
I've got some internal folks that are willing to help with writing code
(as
I will be once I clear my current firefights) so the question of how to
collaborate with code now arises...
Are you comfortable with putting the changes on r.o.o as WiP and
patchworks
as RFC and work through the review process or would you rather work via
forks and pull requests in github?
Ryan
> From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:17 AM
> To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
> discuss at openvswitch.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>, OpenStack
> Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Russell
Bryant <
> russell at ovn.org>
> Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
>
> John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com> wrote on 05/26/2016
> 11:08:43 AM:
>
> > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org"
> > <discuss at openvswitch.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>,
> > "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-
> > dev at lists.openstack.org>, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
> > Date: 05/26/2016 11:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> >
> > Ryan,
> >
> > My (incomplete) throughts about the flow-classifier are:
> >
> > 1) ACL¡¯s are more about denying access, while the flow classifier
> > is more about steering selected traffic to a path, so we would need
> > to deny-all except allowed flows.
> > 2) The networking-sfc team has done a nice job with the drivers so
> > ovn has its own flow-classifier driver which allows us to align the
> > flow-classifier with the matches supported in ovs/ovn, which could
> > be an advantage.
>
> The ACL table has a very simple flow-classifier structure and I'd
> like to see if that can be re-used for the purpose of the SFC classifier
> (read that I feel the Logical_Flow_Classifier table is too complex).
> My initial thoughts were to look at extending the action column and
> using the external-ids field to differentiate between legacy ACLs and
> those that are used to intercept traffic and route it to an SFC.
>
> >
> > What were your thoughts on the schema it adds a lot of tables and a
> > lot of commands ¨C cannot think of anyway around it
>
> In this case, I think that the other tables are reasonable and I'm
> uncomfortable trying to stretch the existing tables to cover that
> information...
>
> Ryan
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
> >
> > From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 9:12 PM
> > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, "discuss at openvswitch.org" <
> > discuss at openvswitch.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>, OpenStack
> > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> Russell Bryant <
> > russell at ovn.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> >
> > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com> wrote on 05/25/2016
> > 07:27:46 PM:
> >
> > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, "OpenStack
> > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ben
> > > Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>, Russell Bryant
> > > <russell at ovn.org>
> > > Date: 05/25/2016 07:28 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > >
> > > Ryan,
> > >
> > > Ok ¨C I will let the experts weigh in on load balancing.
> > >
> > > In the meantime I have attached a couple of files to show where I am
> > > going. The first is sfc_dict.py and is a representation of the dict
> > > I am passing from SFC to OVN. This will then translate to the
> > > attached ovn-nb schema file.
> > >
> > > One of my concerns is that SFC almost doubles the size of the ovn-nb
> > > schema but I could not think of any other way of doing it.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > The dictionary looks fine for a starting point, and the more I look
> > at the classifier, the more I wonder if we can't do something with
> > the current ACL table to avoid duplication in the NB database
> > definition...
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > > From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 7:27 AM
> > > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, OpenStack
> > > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, Ben
Pfaff <
> > > blp at ovn.org>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>, Russell Bryant <
> > russell at ovn.org
> > > >
> > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > >
> > > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com> wrote on 05/24/2016
> > > 06:33:05 PM:
> > >
> > > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>,
"OpenStack
> > > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > > > Date: 05/24/2016 06:33 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > > >
> > > > Ryan,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for getting back to me and pointing me in a more OVS like
> > > > direction. What you say makes sense, let me hack something
together.
> > > > I have been a little distracted getting some use cases together.
The
> > > > other area is how to better map the flow-classifier I have been
> > > > thinking about it a little, but I will leave it till after we get
> > > > the chains done.
> > > >
> > > > Your load-balancing comment was very interesting ¨C I saw some
> > > > patches for load-balancing a few months ago but nothing since. It
> > > > would be great if we could align with load-balancing as that would
> > > > make a really powerful solution.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > John
> > >
> > > John-
> > >
> > > For the load balancing, I believe that you'll want to look at
> > > openvswitch's select group, as that should let you set up multiple
> > > buckets for each egress port in the port pairs that make up a port
> > > group.
> > >
> > > As I understand it, Table 0 identifies the logical port and logical
> > > flow. I'm worried that this means we'll end up with separate bucket
> > > rules for each ingress port of the port pairs that make up a port
> > > group, leading to a cardinality product in the number of rules.
> > > I'm trying to think of a way where Table 0 could identify the packet
> > > as being part of a particular port group, and then I'd only need one
> > > set of bucket rules to figure out the egress side. However, the
> > > amount of free metadata space is limited and so before we go down
> > > this path, I'm going to pull Justin, Ben and Russell in to see if
> > > they buy into this idea or if they can think of an alternative.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > > >
> > > > From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com>
> > > > Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 9:06 PM
> > > > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>, OpenStack
> > > > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > > >
> > > > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com> wrote on 05/18/2016
> > > > 03:55:14 PM:
> > > >
> > > > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>
> > > > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>,
"OpenStack
> > > > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > > > > Date: 05/18/2016 03:55 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > > > >
> > > > > Ryan,
> > > > >
> > > > > OK all three repos and now aligned with their masters. I have
done
> > > > > some simple level system tests and I can steer traffic to a
single
> > > > > VNF. Note: some additional changes to networking-sfc to
catch-up
> > > > > with their changes.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-sfc
> > > > > https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-ovn
> > > > > https://github.com/doonhammer/ovs
> > > > >
> > > > > The next tasks I see are:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. Decouple networking-sfc and networking-ovn. I am thinking
that I
> > > > > will pass a nested port-chain dictionary holding
port-pairs/port-
> > > > > pair-groups/flow-classifiers from networking-sfc to
networking-ovn.
> > > > > 2. Align the interface between networking-ovn and ovs/ovn to
match
> > > > > the nested dictionary in 1.
> > > > > 3. Modify the ovn-nb schema and ovn-northd.c to march the port-
> > > chain model.
> > > > > 4. Add ability to support chain of port-pairs
> > > > > 5. Think about flow-classifiers and how best to map them, today
I
> > > > > just map the logical-port and ignore everything else.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any other suggestions/feedback?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > >
> > > > > John
> > > >
> > > > John-
> > > >
> > > > (Sorry for sending this twice, but I forgot that text/html is not
liked
> > > > by the mailing lists ...)
> > > >
> > > > My apologies for not answering this sooner - I was giving a two
day
> > > > training on Tues/Wed last week and came back to my son graduating
> > > > from HS the next day, so things have been a bit of a whirlwind
here.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the github repos, I like the idea of passing a
dictionary
> > > > from networking-sfc to networking-ovn. The flow classifiers should
> > > > be relatively straightforward to map to ovs match rules (famous
last
> > > > words)...
> > > >
> > > > I've probably missed an orbit here, but in the ovn-northd
> implementation,
> > > > I was expecting to find service chains in the egress and
> router pipelines
> > > > in addition to the ingress pipeline (see below for why I thinka
service
> > > > chain stage in the egress pipeline makes sense ...)
> > > >
> > > > Also, in the ovn-northd implementation, I'm a little disturbedto
see the
> > > > ingress side of the service chain sending packets to output ports
- I
> > > > think that a more scalable (and more "ovs-like" approach) would be
to
> > > > match the egress side of a port pair in the chaining stage of the
> > > > ingress pipeline, with an action that set the input port
register.
> > > > Then the egress pipeline would have a chaining stage where the
output
> > > > port register would be set based on the ingress port of the next
port
> > > > pair in the chain and the packet being punted to the proper output
port
> > > > in the last table. That should automagically build your function
chain
> > > > and provide the basis for bucketizing multiple ingress ports for
the
> > > > next port group to support hash based load balancing.
> > > >
> > > > Does that make sense?
> > > >
> > > > Ryan[attachment "ovn-nb.ovsschema.sfc" deleted by Ryan Moats/
> > > Omaha/IBM] [attachment "sfc_dict.py" deleted by Ryan
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