[ovs-dev] weekly OVN report

Dan Mihai Dumitriu dmd17 at cornell.edu
Sat Mar 5 07:58:26 UTC 2016


Thanks for the explanation and the link Russell.

Is there a regular meeting where this topic might be discussed?
On Mar 5, 2016 02:40, "Russell Bryant" <russell at ovn.org> wrote:

> There's a lot of work happening to improve ovsdb performance (both on the
> client and server sides).  There's testing happening in multiple
> environments (physical and simulated) in the hundreds-of-hypervisors
> range.  Interestingly, most of the bottlenecks we're exposing are on the
> client side.
>
> We have some docs about the current HA story with OpenStack here:
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/networking-ovn/faq.html
>
> Ben has mentioned that he might pick up the distributed ovsdb-server work,
> which is important to get a much better HA story (or I suspect we'll have
> to replace ovsdb).  I'll let him comment further on intentions and status,
> though.
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Dan Mihai Dumitriu <dmd17 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> What's the current thinking around the OVSDB HA and scale solution?
>> Needless to say, the single SB DB to which all ovn-controllers connect
>> could be a liability in various production scenarios.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan
>> On Mar 4, 2016 00:48, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Here's my OVN report for the week, since I'll be in a meeting during the
>> > IRC session today.
>> >
>> > The "continuation" feature needed as a basis for others is in.  Justin
>> > is reviewing the ARP support patches.
>> >
>> > I've spent most of the week in meetings, so there's been minimal
>> > progress.  I'm currently working on some debugging support patches.
>> > After that, I'm going to work on OVSDB.  I'm also interested in
>> > improving ovn-controller performance.
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> Russell Bryant
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