[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn: Remove complete to-do items.

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 16:33:20 UTC 2015


On 04/22/2015 10:52 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com>


> @@ -120,29 +101,6 @@
>  
>  * ovn-northd
>  
> -** Monitor OVN_Northbound database, trigger Pipeline recomputation on change.
> -
> -** Translate each OVN_Northbound entity into Pipeline logical datapath flows.
> -
> -   We have to first sit down and figure out what the general
> -   translation of each entity is.  The original OVN architecture
> -   description at
> -   http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-January/050380.html had
> -   some sketches of these, but they need to be completed and
> -   elaborated.
> -
> -   Initially, the simplest way to do this is probably to write
> -   straight C code to do a full translation of the entire
> -   OVN_Northbound database into the format for the Pipeline table in
> -   the OVN Southbound database.  As scale increases, this will probably
> -   be too inefficient since a small change in OVN_Northbound requires a
> -   full recomputation.  At that point, we probably want to adopt a more
> -   systematic approach, such as something akin to the "nlog" system used
> -   in NVP (see Koponen et al. "Network Virtualization in Multi-tenant
> -   Datacenters", NSDI 2014).
> -
> -** Push logical datapath flows to Pipeline table.
> -
>  ** Monitor OVN Southbound database Bindings table.
>  
>     Sync rows in the OVN Bindings table to the "up" column in the

This last one is done, too.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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