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Some of the stuff like '802.1qbh' isn't particularly vendor specific so I'm
not sure who will host it and a repo just for that seems like a bit much.
Should we just bite the bullet and convert them in the nova tree or put
them in os-vif?


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Stephen Finucane <sfinucan at redhat.com>
wrote:

> os-vif has been integrated into nova since the newton cycle. With the
> integration of os-vif, the expectation is that all the old, non-os-vif
> plugging/unplugging code found in [1] will be replaced by code that
> harnesses
> os-vif plugins [2]. This has happened for a few of the VIF types, and newer
> VIFs are being added in this manner [3]. However, there are quite a few
> VIFs
> that are still using the legacy path, and I think it's about time we
> started
> moving things forward. Doing so allows us to continue to progress on
> passing
> os-vif objects from neutron and remove the large swathes of legacy code
> still
> found in nova.
>
> I've opened a bug against networking-bigswitch [4] for one of these VIF
> types,
> IVS, and I'm thinking I'll do the same for a lot of the other VIF types
> where I
> can find definite vendors. Is there anything else we can do though? At some
> point we're going to have to just start deleting code and I'd like to avoid
> leaving operators in the lurch.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/6205a3f8c/nova/virt/
> libvirt/vif.py#L
> 599-L764
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/6205a3f8c/nova/
> network/os_vif_util.p
> y#L346-L403
> [3] https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-nova-vif-driver
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-bigswitch/+bug/1704129
>
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