[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn v8 0/4] Introduce infrastructure for VIF plug providers
Frode Nordahl
frode.nordahl at canonical.com
Fri Nov 5 11:52:19 UTC 2021
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 8:50 AM Han Zhou <hzhou at ovn.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:29 AM Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Introduce infrastructure for VIF plug providers and add feature to
> > ovn-controller to add and remove ports on the integration bridge as
> > directed by CMS through Logical_Switch_Port options.
> >
> > Traditionally it has been the CMSs responsibility to create Virtual
> > Interfaces (VIFs) as part of instance (Container, Pod, Virtual
> > Machine etc.) life cycle, and subsequently manage plug/unplug
> > operations on the Open vSwitch integration bridge.
> >
> > With the advent of NICs connected to multiple distinct CPUs we can
> > have a topology where the instance runs on one host and Open
> > vSwitch and OVN runs on a different host, the smartnic control plane
> > CPU. The host facing interfaces will be visible to Open vSwitch
> > and OVN as representor ports.
> >
> > The actions necessary for plugging and unplugging the representor
> > port in Open vSwitch running on the smartnic control plane CPU would
> > be the same for every CMS.
> >
> > Hardware or platform specific details for initialization and lookup
> > of representor ports is provided by an plugging provider hosted
> > inside or outside the core OVN repository, and linked at OVN build
> > time.
> >
> > RFC1 -> RFC2:
> > - Introduce the plug-provider interface, remove hardware/platform
> > dependent code.
> > - Add ovsport module.
> > - Integrate with binding module.
> > - Split into multiple patches.
> >
> > RFC2 -> v1:
> > - Extend build system, `--with-plug-provider`.
> > - Check for required data in b_ctx_in and lbinding data structures.
> > - Split consider_plug_lport into update and create processing
> > functions.
> > - Consider unplug on release where relevant.
> > - Add ovn-controller `--enable-dummy-plug` option for testing.
> > - Consistent function naming and move ovsport module to controller/.
> > - Rename plug-test.c -> plug-dummy.c.
> > - Add functional- and unit- tests.
> >
> > v1 -> v2:
> > - Move update to controller/binding.h from patch 6 -> patch 5.
> > - Fix lint problems reported by 0-day Robot.
> >
> > v2 -> v3:
> > - Fix build system extension for plug provider.
> > - Implement DDlog version of northd change.
> > - Rebase on tip.
> >
> > v3 -> v4:
> > - sb:Port_Binding:plugged_by -> sb:Port_Binding:requested_chassis.
> > - Move documentation of plugin specific options to plugin
> > implementation.
> > - ovn-northd-ddlog: squash changes into same patch as C version, rework
> > the DDlog implementation.
> > - controller: Use requested_chassis column instead of parsing options.
> > - plug-provider: Remove the extra class instantiation layer and
> > refcounting. Add documentation and various tweaks.
> > - controller: Add engine node for plug provider so that a plugin run
> > function can run at an appropriate time and also allow feeding back
> > information about changes that can not be handled incrementally.
> > - binding: Fix return values for plug functions so they adhere to the
> > incremental processing engine contract.
> > - Add support for building in-tree plug providers.
> >
> > v4 -> v5:
> > - binding: Make some data structures and functions public to allow
> > other modules to make use of its local binding tracking data
> > structures.
> > - Add separate incremental processing engine nodes for the plug
> > provider.
> > - Do change handling in the controller/plug module rather than piggy
> > backing on the binding module.
> > - Deal with asynchronous notification to plug provider class and
> > subsequent freeing of data structures when the transaction commits.
> > - Drop the representor plugin as in-tree plugin to address concerns about
> > it being Linux-only and having netlink/kernel dependencies. Will
> > upstream to ovn-org/ovn-vif instead.
> >
> > v5 -> v6:
> > - Fix 0-day Robot documentation lexer warning treated as error:
> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-build/2021-September/017538.html
> >
> > v6 -> v7:
> > - lport: Fall back to strcmp when requested-chassis option is set
> > but Port_Binding->requested_chassis is not filled yet.
> > - physical: Make use of common lport_can_bind_on_this_chassis helper
> > instead of duplicating the inverse check in the code.
> > - tests: Add test cases to cover currently uncovered requested-chassis
> > functionality.
> > - plug: Make smaps struct members instead of pointers.
> > - plug: Don't use is_deleted function when not iterating over tracked
> > records. Avoid adding multiple delete or update iface requests
> > to the same transaction.
> > - plug: For full recompute, don't process until northd has populated
> > Port_Binding->requested_chassis to avoid thrashing on startup.
> > Also fix order of processing.
> > - plug: Handle failed transactions appropriately.
> > - tests: Clean up and extend plug test case.
> >
> > v7 -> v8:
> > - Patches 1 through 9 from v7 was merged.
> > - Use Port_Binding:requested_chassis index when iterating over PBs.
> > - Drop separate I-P engine nodes for the VIF plug providers at this
> > time, we can revisit the need for it in the event of VIF plug
> > providers gaining support for Scalable Functions and the increased
> > density that entails.
> > - Rename module, objects and folders from 'plug-' to 'vif-plug-*' to
> > avoid using too generic names.
> > - Don't call vif_plug_port_ctx_destroy on vif_plug_port_prepare
> > failure, make the convention that plug provider should clean up after
> > itself in that case.
> > - Simplify the unplug/plug thrashing avoidance on startup with a rather
> > naive counter to ensure IDL has data prior to attempting any
> > processing. Once we identify the root of the issue this can be removed.
>
> Thanks Frode for the revision. It does look cleaner with the I-P related code removed!
> Mostly looks great, except that I still have two comments for the first patch, and very minor ones for the 2nd and 4th. Hope we can resolve those soon.
Thanks Han,
I believe the remaining issues should be resolved now, and I'll put up
a new iteration shortly.
--
Frode Nordahl
> Thanks,
> Han
>
> >
> > Previous discussion:
> > - RFC1: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/20210509140305.1910796-1-frode.nordahl@canonical.com/
> > - RFC2: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/cover/20210805145013.3033919-1-frode.nordahl@gmail.com/
> >
> > Frode Nordahl (4):
> > lib: Add infrastructure for VIF plug providers.
> > ovn-controller: Prepare VIF plug provider infrastructure.
> > controller: Consider plugging VIF on CMS request.
> > NEWS: Add note on infrastructure for VIF plug providers.
> >
> > Documentation/automake.mk | 2 +
> > Documentation/topics/index.rst | 1 +
> > .../topics/vif-plug-providers/index.rst | 32 +
> > .../vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst | 209 ++++++
> > NEWS | 7 +
> > acinclude.m4 | 49 ++
> > configure.ac | 2 +
> > controller/automake.mk | 4 +-
> > controller/ovn-controller.c | 84 ++-
> > controller/test-vif-plug.c | 72 ++
> > controller/vif-plug.c | 632 ++++++++++++++++++
> > controller/vif-plug.h | 79 +++
> > lib/automake.mk | 10 +-
> > lib/vif-plug-provider.c | 204 ++++++
> > lib/vif-plug-provider.h | 163 +++++
> > lib/vif-plug-providers/dummy/vif-plug-dummy.c | 120 ++++
> > ovn-architecture.7.xml | 35 +-
> > ovn-nb.xml | 21 +
> > tests/automake.mk | 13 +-
> > tests/ovn-macros.at | 2 +-
> > tests/ovn-vif-plug.at | 8 +
> > tests/ovn.at | 121 ++++
> > 22 files changed, 1852 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/topics/vif-plug-providers/index.rst
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/topics/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst
> > create mode 100644 controller/test-vif-plug.c
> > create mode 100644 controller/vif-plug.c
> > create mode 100644 controller/vif-plug.h
> > create mode 100644 lib/vif-plug-provider.c
> > create mode 100644 lib/vif-plug-provider.h
> > create mode 100644 lib/vif-plug-providers/dummy/vif-plug-dummy.c
> > create mode 100644 tests/ovn-vif-plug.at
> >
> > --
> > 2.32.0
> >
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