[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn v8 4/4] NEWS: Add note on infrastructure for VIF plug providers.

[Han Zhou]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:29 AM Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl at canonical.com>
wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl at canonical.com>
> ---
>  NEWS | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 5f448e67d..65bf7d30f 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Post v21.09.0
>      if not desired.
>    - Added Load_Balancer_Group support, which simplifies large scale
>      configurations of load balancers.
> +  - Introduced infrastructure for VIF plug providers.  When OVN is
linked with
> +    an appropriate VIF plug provider, such as OVN VIF [0], CMS can
request OVN
> +    to plug lports.  This is particularly useful in topologies where the
> +    ovn-controller process is running on SmartNIC control plane CPUs.
Please
> +    refer to
Documentation/topics/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst for
> +    more information.
> +    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif

I think it is better to add the link in a separate patch when it is really
created.

Acked-by: Han Zhou <hzhou at ovn.org>

>
>  OVN v21.09.0 - 01 Oct 2021
>  --------------------------
> --
> 2.32.0
>
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