[ovs-dev] ovn: neutron status, picking next task

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Tue Mar 31 18:26:27 UTC 2015


> On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 08:49:25AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> Hello!  The OVN integration for Neutron is coming along well [1].  It's
>> implemented using ovn-nbctl for now, which seems fine for the first
>> demo.  There are a few people that have started helping on the Neutron
>> side, including at least one person who is specifically interested in
>> working on converting it to use ovsdb directly.  So, I've got bandwidth
>> to help more on the OVN side.
>> 
>> Since I've basically been working on this from the top down, it seems
>> like helping with ovn-nbd would be the next thing that makes sense.
>> Justin, have you started on it?  If not, how about I take a stab at the
>> initial shell this week?  If you have started, perhaps we could look at
>> the TODO in more detail to find a piece for me to pick off.
>> 
>> When I say "initial shell", I'd be aiming for a daemon that detects OVN
>> northbound DB updates and just logs them or something.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> For my part, I'm planning to look next at what's needed in
> ovn-controller to push a flow table into Open vSwitch.

That sounds good.  I'll have ovn-controller out no later than tomorrow for review so that you can work on integrating with it.

--Justin





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