[neutron] SR-IOV mechanism driver configuration, plugin.ini
Gabriel Omar Gamero Montenegro
gabriel.gamero at pucp.edu.pe
Wed Dec 30 00:07:42 UTC 2020
Dear all,
I'm following the OpenStack guide for
the implementation of SR-IOV mechanism driver.
I'm planning to incorporate this driver to
my current OpenStack deployment (Queens).
Config SR-IOV Guide:
https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/queens/admin/config-sriov.html
At point 2, section "Configure neutron-server (Controller)"
they said that I have to add the 'plugin.ini' file
as a parameter to the neutron-server service.
To do this they require to
<<edit the appropriate initialization script to configure the
neutron-server service to load the plugin configuration file>>:
--config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
--config-file /etc/neutron/plugin.ini
I'd like to know a few things:
(1) Which plugin.ini file are talking about?
(2) How to set up the neutron-server initialization script
to add the plugin.ini file?
I understand that this varies between OS distro
(I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server)
Here are some things I tried...
I got the following results executing this command:
systemctl status neutron-server.service
● neutron-server.service - OpenStack Neutron Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/neutron-server.service;
enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-29 18:13:50 -05
Main PID: 38590 (neutron-server)
Tasks: 44
Memory: 738.8M
CPU: 29.322s
CGroup: /system.slice/neutron-server.service
├─38590 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/neutron-server
--config-file=/etc/neutron/neutron.conf
--config-file=/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
--log-file=/var/log/neutron/neutron-server.log
...
I see 2 things:
(i) When neutron-server is exectured,
the following parameters are passed:
--config-file=/etc/neutron/neutron.conf
--config-file=/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
--log-file=/var/log/neutron/neutron-server.log
(ii) The file '/lib/systemd/system/neutron-server.service'
is loaded and it has the following content:
...
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/neutron-server systemd-start
...
This indicates me that it's executing
'/etc/init.d/neutron-server' script.
So I suppose this is the file indicated to add the parameters
of the SR-IOV OpenStack documentation,
but I have no idea where to put them.
For Red-Hat distros I found this documentation
with the following configuration:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/
red_hat_enterprise_linux_openstack_platform/7/html/networking_guide
/sr-iov-support-for-virtual-networking
vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/neutron-server.service
...
ExecStart=/usr/bin/neutron-server
--config-file /usr/share/neutron/neutron-dist.conf
--config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
--config-file /etc/neutron/plugin.ini
--config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_sriov.ini
--log-file /var/log/neutron/server.log
Thanks in advance,
Gabriel Gamero
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