[openstack-dev] [Openstack] [nova] [os-vif] [vif_plug_ovs] Support for OVS DB tcp socket communication.

Stephen Finucane sfinucan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 16:37:33 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 15:22 +0530, pranab boruah wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I have filed a bug in os-vif: 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-vif/+bug/1778724 and working on a
> patch. Any feedback/comments from you guys would be extremely
> helpful. 
> Bug details:
> OVS DB server has the feature of listening over a TCP socket for
> connections rather than just on the unix domain socket. [0]
> 
> If the OVS DB server is listening over a TCP socket, then the ovs-
> vsctl commands should include the ovsdb_connection parameter:
> # ovs-vsctl --db=tcp:IP:PORT ...
> eg:
> # ovs-vsctl --db=tcp:169.254.1.1:6640 add-port br-int eth0
> Neutron supports running the ovs-vsctl commands with the
> ovsdb_connection parameter. The ovsdb_connection parameter is
> configured in openvswitch_agent.ini file. [1]
> While adding a vif to the ovs bridge(br-int), Nova(os-vif) invokes
> the ovs-vsctl command. Today, there is no support to pass the
> ovsdb_connection parameter while invoking the ovs-vsctl command. The
> support should be added. This would enhance the functionality of os-
> vif, since it would support a scenario when OVS DB server is
> listening on a TCP socket connection and on functional parity with
> Neutron.
> [0] http://www.openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovsdb-server.1.html
> [1] 
> https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/pike/configuration/openvswitch-agent.html
> 
> 
> TIA,Pranab

Perhaps not the same thing, but would the patches mentioned in the
below mail work for this too?

  
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-March/127907.html

Cheers,
Stephen


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