[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5] ovn: Connect to remote lports through localnet port.

[Han Zhou]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Han Zhou <zhouhan at gmail.com> 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>
>
>
> Thanks for the additions.  You can keep my ACK on here.
>
> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>


Sorry Russell, I missed it, will add in next version.

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Best regards,
Han