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Bug 1467918

Summary: Neutronclient support for VNIC_VIRTIO_FORWARDER
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: Jan Gutter (Netronome) <jan.gutter>
Component: python-neutronclientAssignee: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Toni Freger <tfreger>
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Version: 12.0 (Pike)CC: amuller, chrisw, ihrachys, jan.gutter, jruzicka, mark.guinther, nick.viljoen, nyechiel, simon.horman, srevivo
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Last Closed: 2017-07-26 16:26:48 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jan Gutter (Netronome) 2017-07-05 13:54:21 UTC 
Preface:

The intention of this bug is to provide insight into a feature proposed by Netronome for inclusion in RHOSP12.

Description:

Work is underway to extend the list of supported VNIC types in OpenStack in order to support a lightweight VF-to-vhostuser virtio proxy. This mechanism would allow a VM to boot with a vhostuser interface where the proxy on the hypervisor does not itself to complex switching.

The key difference between standard vhostuser plugs is that VNIC_VIRTIO_FORWARDER will consume a VF resource.

This provides another plugging method into accelerated and offloaded NICs.

Status:

Patches are in internal testing, RFE+patches will be submitted by 07/07 2017 to Neutron.
Comment 1 Ihar Hrachyshka 2017-07-11 14:04:43 UTC 
Were patches submitted?
Comment 2 Jan Gutter (Netronome) 2017-07-14 16:50:52 UTC 
(In reply to Ihar Hrachyshka from comment #1)
> Were patches submitted?

Apologies, late in the dev cycle it was discovered that a new VIF type would be required, the changes to python-neutronclient and python-openstackclient remained the same, however. The patches are submitted at:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/483532
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/483533
Comment 3 Jan Gutter (Netronome) 2017-07-21 09:02:24 UTC 
The patches to python-openstackclient were accepted, but since python-neutronclient has been frozen and deprecated since Ocata, it might not be merged there. This does not block support in Horizon, however.
Comment 4 Jan Gutter (Netronome) 2017-07-23 20:41:52 UTC 
The change to python-neutronclient was abandoned due to the freeze.
Comment 5 Ihar Hrachyshka 2017-07-26 16:26:48 UTC 
Closing the bug as WONTFIX since it does conflict with upstream plans for neutronclient. No major product/integration issues are expected from the upstream decision.