[openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Cathy Zhang
Cathy.H.Zhang at huawei.com
Fri Jun 17 22:20:51 UTC 2016
Hi John,
Please see Inline.
Thanks,
Cathy
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To: Na Zhu
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Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [openstack-dev] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Juno,
Apologies - I see your issue now, also I have got nothing done today - got sucked into an all day meeting. I was thinking very much from a ovs/ovn perspective and also my first prototype was very simple.
So while in networking=sfc/ovn the port-cahin does not have a switch I think port-chain needs a lswitch context as that is where the port-chain table is created. Let me try and lay this out. I am not sure if I am getting this right but it is a starting point for discussion and comment by the community.
The first thing is that there could be three different types of VNF's, L3, L2, and Bump in the Wire (BITW). I am not sure if it would be possible to mix and match these different types in a series of port-pair-groups.
Cathy> A port-pair-group is introduced to group one or more functional like VNFs for load balancing purpose. So we should not mix and match different types of VNFs in a port-pair-group.
JED> Agreed
Also as a first phase I have been trying to remove the need for the VNF to participate in the service chain (or be aware of it). In addition I also wanted to remove the need for any "proxy" as documented in the NSH model, by moving a lot of the functionality to the ovn-northd.
Cathy> VNF should not need to participate in the service chain stitching/forwarding operation. From service chain point of view, the VNFs are just a pair of Neutron ports and the OVN control plane ( the OVN Driver, DB, and OVN local controller) should take care of setting the hop-by-hop forwarding path of the chain, similar to how OVS driver and OVS Agent do it.
Mode 1: BITW
1. Port-Pairs: The logical ports need to be on the same logical switch
2. Port-pair-groups: They are made up of sets of port-pairs, until we see the load-balancing proposal for ovs/ovn not sure if port-pairs can be on different logical switches or not. This translates to a set of rules in the port-chain table that chains output ports of one VNF to the input port of the next VNF, until the last VNF when the traffic is forwarded to the final destination of the packet. If the port-chain is bi-directional then the rule set has to be implemented in reverse (many VNF's Firewalls, Load Balancers etc need to see both legs of the traffic).
3. Flow-classifier: Is a set of rules that are set as an ACL rule with first logical port of the first pair in the first port-pair-group.
Cathy> Not sure what you mean by "with first logical port of the first pair". The classification attributes/rules for the flow classifier has nothing to do with the first logical port of the first pair in the first port-pair-group. The specification of flow classifier is separated from the specification of the port pair, port pair group, port chain. A port chain can be dynamically associated with zero, one, or more flow classifier. Note that the source Neutron port defined in the flow classifier refers to the Neutron port of the source VM, not the Neutron port of the port-pair/VNF. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean?
JED> Yes, I got it wrong the flow-classifier steers the traffic to the first port of the first port-pair-group. We are in agreement.
Likewise if the port-chain is bi-directional then the rules have to be symmetric to steer the traffic in both directions.
Cathy> we are adding symmetric support in the API.
JED> Thought so - great
1. Port-chain: defined on the same logical switch as the first logical-source-port of the flow-classifier, as this is where the port-chain table is created and the rules for traffic steering are inserted.
Mode 2: L2
I think this would be similar to the BITH case but instead of steering by logical ports the steering would be done by VLAN tags. This would also mean that the VNFs would have to be aware of the steering rules and be able to manipulate VLAN tags.
Cathy> OVN should program the OVS with a proper next hop port and vlan tag so as to steer the packet to the next hop VNF properly.
JED> For both L2 and L3 mode I see the problem from the VNF POV. When the VNF is supporting L2/L3 mode it is acting on the packets as if it is a switch or a router. It is deciding which output interface to send the packet to and how to modify the packet. If we decide that the VNF will always act as a BITW then there is not an issue. Does this make sense?
Cathy> I think we can not assume that all VNFs will act as a BITW. Also from a generic service chain design point of view, we need to accommodate different types of VNFs (such as L2, L3, BITW) and maybe different flavors of VNF implementations. Since we can not control the behavior of a VNF, what we can do is to design the control plane to program the OVS's flow table, properly modify the packet's source and destination header so that the packet will be properly forwarded to the next hop. Need some good thought on the approach that works for all situations:)
Mode 3: L3
This would require the VNF's to be aware of the routing rules and set static routes/net hop rules for each step in the service chain.
Cathy>Same thing. I think we should try to see what the OVN driver, Controller can do to set up the hop rules instead of requiring VNF to set the rules.
JED> But would need to set the next hop rules on the VNF too, if it is acting as routing aware.
Modes 2 & 3 would require a much more sophisticated control plane to program both OVN and the VNFs.
Cathy> Yes, agree that it needs quite some thought on how the control plane should program the data forwarding path.
JED> Agreed
Thoughts?
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 9:41 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
John,
I am not taking about your script.
I am talking about the SFC configuration in neutron, the steps are
1, create flow-classifer
2, create port-pairs
3, create port-pair-group with port-pairs
4, create port-chain with flow-classifer and port-pair-groups
So when create port-chain in neutron, the networking-sfc ovn driver call networking-ovn idl APIs to write port-chain parameters to northbound db,
you can see that the port-chain is not related with network, so how to get the lswitch in ovn driver and then write port-chain to lswitch table?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Srilatha Tangirala" <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Date: 2016/06/15 11:53
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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Juno,
Little different - the script I sent:
Create port-chain attached to a switch
Create a port-pair in a switch
Create a port-pair-chain attached to port-chain
Add a port-pair to port-pair-group
Create a flow-classifier added to a port-chain
Should have a fully functional port-chain
I will add the code to steer traffic tomorrow
Regards
John
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
John,
Here is the steps to configure sfc,
1, create flow-classifer
2, create port-pairs
3, create port-pair-group with port-pairs
4, create port-chain with flow-classifer and port-pair-groups
You can see that the port-chain is not related to network, my question is how to get the lswitch for networking-sfc and write it to database?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
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Date: 2016/06/15 11:31
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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Juno,
It is a container for port-pair-groups and flow-classifier. I imagine there could be more the than one port-chain per switch. Also we may want to extend the model beyond a single lswitch
Regards
John
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On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:09 PM, Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
Hi John,
Another question, I think port-chain is irrelevant with lswitch, one port-chain includes multiple port-pair-groups and one flow-classifier, how to get the lswitch by port-chain?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Srilatha Tangirala" <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Date: 2016/06/15 11:04
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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The reason I did that was to be able to create reusable VNF's
Regards
John
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On Jun 14, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
John,
Since you have port-chain as child of lswitch, do you need port-pairs as child of lswitch any more?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Srilatha Tangirala" <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Date: 2016/06/15 09:11
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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John,
OK, I will change networking-ovn IDL to align with the new schema.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "Srilatha Tangirala" <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Date: 2016/06/15 08:30
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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Juno,
I worked on ovs/ovn today and re-structured the schema. I could not figure out how to make this work without have lport-chains as a child of lswitch. So I have got the basics working - attached a simple shell script that creates and shows the port-chains. I tried to merge with the upstream master but there are a bunch of changes that while minor would have taken sometime to merge in, so I skipped it for now.
The new schema will break the networking-ovn IDL, apologies. The areas I can think of are:
Port-chain is now a child of lswitch so needs that as a parameter.
Flow-classifier is now a child of port-chain only so need to change from lswitch to lport-chain
If you can work on the changes to networking-ovn great (I promise not to change the schema again until we have had a wider review). If not I will get to it tomorrow.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 9:57 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
Hi John,
OK, I also find the column "port_pairs" and "flow_classifiers" can not be wrote by idl APIs, I will try to fix it.
If any update, i will send you email.
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>
Date: 2016/06/14 12:17
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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Juno,
Trying to implement this today showed that this will not work for OVN. I am going back to RussellB 's original model with port-chain as a child of lswitch.
I can make this work and then we can evolve from there. It will require some re-write of the idl code - hopefully I will get it done tomorrow.
Regards
John
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On Jun 13, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>> wrote:
Hi John,
I see you add column "port_pairs" and "flow_classifiers" to table Logical_Switch, I am not clear about it, the port-pair ingress port and egress port can be the same, they also can be different and in same/different network, and the flow classifier is not per network neither, can you explain why you do that?
Regards,
Juno Zhu
IBM China Development Labs (CDL) Cloud IaaS Lab
Email: nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List \(not for usage questions\)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>
Date: 2016/06/14 10:44
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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
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Juno,
What ever is easiest for you - 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 - 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<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Monday, June 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List \(not for usage questions\)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>
Date: 2016/06/09 16:18
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Amitabha Biswas <azbiswas at gmail.com<mailto:azbiswas at gmail.com>>
Cc: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>
Date: 2016/06/09 00:53
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [openstack-dev] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC andOVN
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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<mailto:azbiswas at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 11:36 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, discuss <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto: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<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking&d=CwMF-g&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=HkxBkhm69SxTBQTw2-s5MvEDiFsrOjXero1F3DeFO88&s=0qATypbGGShogPxjkRq8oKnjHMUvVwiWLAY17gBr6iM&e=>-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-sfc<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking-2Dsfc&d=CwMF-g&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=HkxBkhm69SxTBQTw2-s5MvEDiFsrOjXero1F3DeFO88&s=8ftwwsdvSwYTc3WSmDDad9L9dwV6CwaIuOwtoN5FwqA&e=>repo. 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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote:
Juno, Srilatha,
I need some help - 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<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7:54 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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 - 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 - 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<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Monday, June 6, 2016 at 5:49 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto:srilatta at us.ibm.com>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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 - 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<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 6:30 AM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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 - I will let them speak for themselves.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 7:02 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Na Zhu/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking-2Dsfc&d=CwMFoQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=lb7sZo6o-vFSQLHy4n1Z15SjFlZHXBjYRDDXk9di20M&s=-ddZLbnKqv3LwRqTTveuebbVLL9e2A1xRCQBQO--nc0&e=>
https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-ovn<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking-2Dovn&d=CwMFoQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=lb7sZo6o-vFSQLHy4n1Z15SjFlZHXBjYRDDXk9di20M&s=4XnntcfVxo4fQdni-WOsfqIeRA0x8jagW77y_XgPyUQ&e=>
https://github.com/doonhammer/ovs<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_ovs&d=CwMFoQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=lb7sZo6o-vFSQLHy4n1Z15SjFlZHXBjYRDDXk9di20M&s=vPrUbDdQZ1mIswNv5U8VorIkCU_J5Aze8xGz5DLn_s8&e=>
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 - but I can help in any way you need.
Regards
John
From: Na Zhu <nazhu at cn.ibm.com<mailto:nazhu at cn.ibm.com>>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 9:02 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Srilatha Tangirala <srilatta at us.ibm.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
To: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto: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<mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org>>
________________________________
Ryan,
More help is always great :-). As far as who to collaborate, what ever Is easiest for everyone - I am pretty flexible.
Regards
John
From: Ryan Moats <rmoats at us.ibm.com<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:59 PM
To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>, OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org<mailto:russell at ovn.org>>
Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote on 05/31/2016 03:21:30 PM:
> From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>"
> <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>,
> "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-
> dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org<mailto: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<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:17 AM
> To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <
> discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>, OpenStack
> Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Russell Bryant <
> russell at ovn.org<mailto:russell at ovn.org>>
> Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
>
> John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote on 05/26/2016
> 11:08:43 AM:
>
> > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>"
> > <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>,
> > "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-
> > dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org<mailto: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 - 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<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 9:12 PM
> > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <
> > discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>, OpenStack
> > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>,
> Russell Bryant <
> > russell at ovn.org<mailto:russell at ovn.org>>
> > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> >
> > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote on 05/25/2016
> > 07:27:46 PM:
> >
> > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack
> > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ben
> > > Pfaff <blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>, Russell Bryant
> > > <russell at ovn.org<mailto:russell at ovn.org>>
> > > Date: 05/25/2016 07:28 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > >
> > > Ryan,
> > >
> > > Ok - 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<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
> > > Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 7:27 AM
> > > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, OpenStack
> > > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>, Ben Pfaff <
> > > blp at ovn.org<mailto:blp at ovn.org>>, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org<mailto:jpettit at ovn.org>>, Russell Bryant <
> > russell at ovn.org<mailto:russell at ovn.org>
> > > >
> > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > >
> > > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote on 05/24/2016
> > > 06:33:05 PM:
> > >
> > > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack
> > > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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 - 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<mailto:rmoats at us.ibm.com>>
> > > > Date: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 9:06 PM
> > > > To: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, OpenStack
> > > > Development Mailing List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
> > > > Subject: Re: [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN
> > > >
> > > > John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>> wrote on 05/18/2016
> > > > 03:55:14 PM:
> > > >
> > > > > From: John McDowall <jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com<mailto:jmcdowall at paloaltonetworks.com>>
> > > > > To: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM at IBMUS
> > > > > Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>" <discuss at openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss at openvswitch.org>>, "OpenStack
> > > > > Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto: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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking-2Dsfc&d=CwMGaQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=mLaxHI6XiGcUfgsL5Egu3aC0QR-xI7L_QuffCoTwtz8&s=8QaDNJ9iUOwW-TDDioAlHYpO-WM2a7-bMuP7qJTezaw&e=>
> > > > > https://github.com/doonhammer/networking-ovn<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_networking-2Dovn&d=CwMGaQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=mLaxHI6XiGcUfgsL5Egu3aC0QR-xI7L_QuffCoTwtz8&s=ITWWb5V3L60kdiwK5QIbo-YEcIvGkdKDW4xl6uNj_3g&e=>
> > > > > https://github.com/doonhammer/ovs<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_doonhammer_ovs&d=CwMGaQ&c=V9IgWpI5PvzTw83UyHGVSoW3Uc1MFWe5J8PTfkrzVSo&r=vZ6VUDaavDpfOdPQrz1ED54jEjvAE36A8TVJroVlrOQ&m=mLaxHI6XiGcUfgsL5Egu3aC0QR-xI7L_QuffCoTwtz8&s=bBOpCVRnF1ntciYqKMTLupX4eagWaWVXoKRWAwAio2I&e=>
> > > > >
> > > > > 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/
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