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[Bug 1511250] Re: RFE: remove the deprecation flag of agent_type option fot the ovs agent

 

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1506127 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506127

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1512629
   RFE: Open vSwitch vhost-user support via fast path detection
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1506127
   enable vhost-user support with neutron ovs agent

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Title:
  RFE: remove the deprecation flag of agent_type option fot the ovs
  agent

Status in networking-6wind:
  New
Status in neutron:
  New

Bug description:
  The agent_type option has been introduced in liberty with the
  deprecated flags. It provides a mechanism to enable coexistence of
  dpdk enabled ovs nodes and vanilla ovs nodes by allowing a
  configurable agent_type both the standard openvswitch ml2 mechanism
  driver and the ovsdpdk mechanism driver can be used. For more
  information see the original RFE bug:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1469871

  The same mechanism could be used by the  ML2 mechanism driver ovs-
  fp[1] to know if the node is running the fast path. [2]

  By setting the agent type  to a different value that AGENT_TYPE_OVS
  'Open vSwitch agent', i.e. AGENT_TYPE_OVS_FP 'Open VSwitch fast path
  agent' for compute node running the fast path,  our mechanism driver
  will only set the port binding (vif type vhostuser, and not ovs) for
  these specific computes nodes.

  -----

  [1]  https://github.com/openstack/networking-
  6wind/blob/master/networking_6wind/ml2_drivers/mech_ovs_fp.py

  [2]     Fast path technology is an user-space stack for high
  performance packet offloading Linux kernel scenarios including
  acceleration of ip routing, linux bridge, OVS, iptables, conntrack...
  Fast path is deployed on the compute nodes to offload the packet
  processing. It can be configured with standard linuxcommands (i.e.
  iproute2, ovs-vsctl, ...), allowing to support Neutron Mechanism
  Driver/Agents based on Linux bridge or openvswitch.

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