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[Corey Bryant <1832021@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello David, or anyone else affected,

Accepted neutron into rocky-proposed. The package will build now and be
available in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. To enable the -proposed
repository:

  sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:rocky-proposed
  sudo apt-get update

Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-rocky-needed to verification-rocky-done. If it does
not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change
the tag to verification-rocky-failed. In either case, details of your
testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: cloud-archive/rocky
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-rocky-needed

** Changed in: cloud-archive/queens
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: cloud-archive
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Checksum drop of metadata traffic on isolated networks with DPDK

Status in OpenStack neutron-openvswitch charm:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive queens series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive rocky series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive stein series:
  Fix Released
Status in neutron:
  Fix Released
Status in neutron package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in neutron source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in neutron source package in Focal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  When an isolated network using provider networks for tenants (meaning
  without virtual routers: DVR or network node), metadata access occurs
  in the qdhcp ip netns rather than the qrouter netns.

  The following options are set in the dhcp_agent.ini file:
  force_metadata = True
  enable_isolated_metadata = True

  VMs on the provider tenant network are unable to access metadata as
  packets are dropped due to checksum.

  [Test Plan]

  1. Create an OpenStack deployment with DPDK options enabled and
  'enable-local-dhcp-and-metadata: true' in neutron-openvswitch. A
  sample, simple 3 node bundle can be found here[1].

  2. Create an external flat network and subnet:

  openstack network show dpdk_net || \
    openstack network create --provider-network-type flat \
                             --provider-physical-network physnet1 dpdk_net \
                             --external

  openstack subnet show dpdk_net || \
      openstack subnet create --allocation-pool start=10.230.58.100,end=10.230.58.200 \
                              --subnet-range 10.230.56.0/21 --dhcp --gateway 10.230.56.1 \
                              --dns-nameserver 10.230.56.2 \
                              --ip-version 4 --network dpdk_net dpdk_subnet

  
  3. Create an instance attached to that network. The instance must have a flavor that uses huge pages.

  openstack flavor create --ram 8192 --disk 50 --vcpus 4 m1.dpdk
  openstack flavor set m1.dpdk --property hw:mem_page_size=large

  openstack server create --wait --image xenial --flavor m1.dpdk --key-
  name testkey --network dpdk_net i1

  4. Log into the instance host and check the instance console. The
  instance will hang into the boot and show the following message:

  2020-11-20 09:43:26,790 - openstack.py[DEBUG]: Failed reading optional
  path http://169.254.169.254/openstack/2015-10-15/user_data due to:
  HTTPConnectionPool(host='169.254.169.254', port=80): Read timed out.
  (read timeout=10.0)

  5. Apply the fix in all computes, restart the DHCP agents in all
  computes and create the instance again.

  6. No errors should be shown and the instance quickly boots.

  
  [Where problems could occur]

  * This change is only touched if datapath_type and ovs_use_veth. Those settings are mostly used for DPDK environments. The core of the fix is
  to toggle off checksum offload done by the DHCP namespace interfaces.
  This will have the drawback of adding some overhead on the packet processing for DHCP traffic but given DHCP does not demand too much data, this should be a minor proble.

  * Future changes on the syntax of the ethtool command could cause
  regressions


  [Other Info]

   * None


  [1] https://gist.github.com/sombrafam/e0741138773e444960eb4aeace6e3e79

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