[openstack-dev] [neutron] OVSDB native interface as default in gate jobs

Kevin Benton kevin at benton.pub
Wed Mar 30 02:34:41 UTC 2016


I'm not aware of any issues. Perhaps you can propose a patch to just change
the default in Neutron to that interface and people can -1 if there are any
concerns.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Inessa Vasilevskaya <
ivasilevskaya at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I spent some time researching the current state of native ovsdb interface
> feature, which has been fully implemented and merged since Liberty [1][2].
> I was pretty much impressed by the expected performance improvement (as per
> spec [1], some interesting research on ovs-vsctl + rootwrap also done here
> [3]). Preliminary test results also showed that native interface does quite
> well.
>
> So my question is - why don’t we make native interface the default option
> for voting gate jobs? Are there any caveats or security issues that I am
> unaware of?
>
> Regards,
>
> Inessa
>
> [1]
> https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/kilo/vsctl-to-ovsdb.html
>
> [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/vsctl-to-ovsd
> <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/vsctl-to-ovsdb>
> [3]
> http://blog.otherwiseguy.com/replacing-ovs-vsctl-calls-with-native-ovsdb-in-neutron/
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20160329/fe480ad0/attachment.html>


More information about the OpenStack-dev mailing list