[ovs-dev] [RFC 0/8] OVN east-west loadbalancing.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Mar 16 23:15:07 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:33:16PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> This series adds support for OVN loadbalancing. This is very
> lightly tested (with a very simple OVN topology of 1 router
> and 2 lswitches), but the patches are far enough to get any
> early feedback.
> 
> The patches were tested on Linux kernel 4.4 with Jarno's
> NAT patches (sent for review upstream) compiled in.
> 
> Gurucharan Shetty (7):
>   ovn-northd: Split ACL and pre-ACL processing.
>   ovn-northd: Introduce pre-stateful table.
>   ovn-northd: Introduce stateful table.
>   ovn-nb: Add Load-balancer table to schema.
>   ovn-northd: Pre-loadbalancing table.
>   ovn-northd: Introduce the loadbalancing table.
>   ovn-controller: Handle logical flows of loadbalancers.
> 
> Jarno Rajahalme (1):
>   system-traffic: Load balancing.

Thank you for implementing this.  This is remarkably clean.  I am
impressed that a load balancer can be implemented with a handful of
flows.  Good work, and I'm looking forward to the non-RFC version.



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