Network/Meetings

The OpenStack Networking Team (Neutron) holds public meetings in #openstack-meeting. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Apologies for Absence

-- beagles, March 31, taking kid to appointment

Agenda for Next Neutron Team Meeting

Announcements / Reminders

--markmcclain (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Icehouse-rc1.
We are in stability phase of the cycle.
- Only bug fixes and FFEs will be merged.
- Other contributions will be given temporary -2 until tree opens for Juno.

Bugs

Stable branch is still having stability problems in the test runs.
Critical Open Bugs
- grenade-dsvm-neutron Failure in upgrade-swift - jlibosva

This bugs are in nova that are related to neutron that would be great if we could get neutron reviews on:

- [1] Remove unneeded call to fetch network info on shutdown - arosen
- [2] remove unneeded call to network_api on detach_interface - arosen
- [3] remove unneeded call to network_api on rebuild_instance - arosen
- [4] Optimize validate_networks to query neutron only when needed - arosen
- [5] deallocate_for_instance should delete all neutron ports on error - arosen
- [6] Fix port_security_enabled neutron extension - arosen
- [7] Fix pre-created ports in neutron from being deleted by nova - arosen

Docs (emagana)

Network Documentation Wiki (Refactoring of the installation guide)
- https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/InstallGuideChanges
BPs associated:

HA Neutron - Proposal
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2014-January/003689.html

Current list of bugs against neutron docs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bugs?field.tag=neutron

High Priority Tickets:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1099574 - Unassigned - Invalid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1179046 - Unassigned - This bug will be cover in this BP [1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1203230 - Martin Lopes - Partially fixed and requesting feedback if another patch is needed or we can close it
- Fixed by: https://review.openstack.org/76455
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1230276 - Martin Lopes - Partially fixed and requesting feedback if another patch is needed or we can close it
- Fixed by: https://review.openstack.org/79228
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1260129 - Summer Long - Requested a status update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1273412 - Edgar Magana - In Review

Medium Priority Tickets:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1026745 - Unassigned - Request sent to Mate Lakat to help on this one
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1087586 - Edgar Magana - In Review
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1106428 - Edgar Magana - WIP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1112866 - Edgar Magana - WIP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1224160 - Phil Hopkins - Requested a status update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1226279 - Aaron Rosen - WIP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1226394 - Unassigned - - Request sent to Aaron Rosen to help on this one
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1226889 - Edgar Magana - This bug will be covered in this BP [2]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1259576 - Unassigned - Request sent to Oleg Bondarev to help on this one
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1283334 - Unassigned - Request sent to Irena B. to help on this one
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1283930 - Unassigned - Request sent to Itsuro Oda to help on this one
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1286593 - Mohammad Banikazemi - WIP

Nova Parity (beagles)

(updated March 31, 2014) < no updates >

Neutron Tempest (mlavalle)

Full Tempest Test Update (salv-orlando)
- ML Thread for Full Tempest
- Latest analysis of the failures
Tempest cores reviewing and approving api tests more actively:
- 4 patchsets are listed as abandoned in Gerrit. On 3/20, an email was sent to their authors requesting permission to assign the work to other contributors. Three authors responded and as a consequence, the following patchsets had been restored:
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60008 Restored by original author Evgeny Fedoruk (Extending quota support for neutron LBaaS entities)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66454 Restored by original author Sylvain Afchain (Improve the extra routes test on router)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83627 Original author, Joris Roovers responded he cannot continue work. New patchset created by Miguel Lavalle
- As of 3/20 The following patchsets require just on more +2 to merge. They were brought to the attention of the Tempest core reviewers during their IRC meeting on 3/20:
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63999
- Patchsets merged between 3/25 and 3/31
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68597 Nayna Patel (Adds "add_dhcp_agent" to test_dhcp_agent_scheduler)
- Patchsets merged between 3/18 and 3/24
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/71251 Ann Kamyshnikova (Verify more information in floating ip tests)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66796 Elena Ezhova (Add api tests for load balancer's VIPs and health monitors)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66921 Sukhdev Kapur (Networks,Ports: delete with subnet, port with no IP)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63999 Ann Kamyshnikova (Add tests for external network extension)
- Patchsets merged between 3/11 and 3/17
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61118 Ann Kamyshnikova (Verify more information in API tests for LBaaS)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68626 Nanya Patel (Adds L3 agent test case to test_l3_agent_schedule)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64271 Elena Ezhova (Add tests for binding extended attributes for ports)
- Patchsets merged between 3/3 and 3/10
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/69561 Nanya Patel (Test to update neutron security group)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64130 Ann Kamyshnikova (Add namespaces to xml in Network client)
- Patchsets merged between 2/25 and 3/2
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/74744 Jun Xie (test create router setting tenant_id)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/73789 Dong Liu (test more attributes for routers operation)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/69829 Nanya Patel (json and xml client refactoring for security group operations)
- Patchsets merged between 2/17 and 2/24
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67210 Henry Gessau (Network API framework: default to ipv4, add ipv6 tests)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65120 Miguel Lavalle (lbaas agent scheduler)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67741 Miguel Lavalle (Neutron Extra DHCP Options API test)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66143 Emilien Macchi (api metering labels and rules)

API (salv-orlando)

No report

L3 (carl_baldwin)

(updated 2014-03-31)

See Meetings/Neutron-L3-Subteam for detail.

Team meeting on Thursdays at 1500 UTC.
Active Projects
- l3-high-availability
  - Patches are submitted. Needs review.
- neutron-ovs-dvr
  - DVR meeting is still going on.
  - Documentation on ML2 and L3 agent changes is available. Need help reviewing.
    - DVR-L2-Agent Blueprint
    - DVR-L3-Agent Blueprint
  - WIP Code
    - Add L3 Extension for Distributed Routers
- bgp-dynamic-routing
  - Created a Wiki Page Describing Use Cases For Dynamic Routing
    - Discussed MPLS/BGP Use Case. Could use more feedback.
  - Updates to blueprint
- L3 Agent Performance with Wrapper Overhead
  - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/neutron-agent-exec-performance
  - For Icehouse, sent information to Emagana to document sudo performance fix.
  - Root wrap agent is in review. Changes to Neutron here.
- Also discussed another performance concern: metadata proxy memory usage across many namespaces.
New blueprints for Juno.
- Fixing/enabling DNS lookup of instance hostnames
  - carl_baldwin (still) wrapping up a blueprint for this
- Please bring other potential blueprints to the discussion at the meeting
  - decentralized-snat, l3-high-availability active/active, router-port-forwarding

IPv6 (sc68cal)

Add support for IPv6 attributes to the DCHP agent

ML2 (mestery/rkukura)

Weekly Meetings/ML2 are held, please attend if interested!
- Tracking status of open BPs, including new drivers - owners should try to attend
Migration tool BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-deprecated-plugin-migration
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/76533/ - merged
Two bug fixes for port binding:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1276395 - binding details
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/79511 - merged
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1276391 - bind_port() called in transaction
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/82945/ - in review

Group Policy (mestery)

Weekly meeting here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Neutron_Group_Policy
- Continuing to make progress on the API patches thanks to SumitNaiksatam.
- Group Policy model document here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Nn1HjghAvk2RTPwvltSrnCUJkidWKWY2ckU7OYAVNpo/edit?usp=sharing
- Making progress on the DB object model code thanks to banix.
- Will implement Group Policies as new Core Plugin initially

Open Discussion

Previous meeting logs

Previous meetings, with their notes and logs, can be found here.
Older meeting notes are here: ../MeetingLogs.