[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] ovn: Connect to remote lports through localnet port.

[Russell Bryant]

On 02/12/2016 12:36 AM, Han Zhou wrote:
> Before this patch, inter-chassis communication between VIFs of same
> lswitch will always go through tunnel, which end up of modeling a
> single physical network with many lswitches and pairs of lports, and
> complexity in CMS like OpenStack neutron to manage the lswitches and
> lports.
> 
> With this patch, inter-chassis communication can go through physical
> networks via localnet port with a 1:1 mapping between lswitches and
> physical networks. The pipeline becomes:
> 
> Ingress -> Egress (local) -> Ingress (remote) -> Egress
> 
> The original tunneling mechanism will still be used if there is no
> localnet port configured on the lswitch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <zhouhan at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>

Ben, would you like to review this since you reviewed the original
localnet port support?

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Russell Bryant