16:04:12 #startmeeting networking_ml2 16:04:14 Meeting started Wed Feb 4 16:04:12 2015 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is rkukura. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:04:16 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 16:04:18 The meeting name has been set to 'networking_ml2' 16:04:44 hi 16:04:50 hi 16:04:57 #link Agenda https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ML2 16:05:26 #topic Announcements 16:06:01 My only annoucement is that mestery plans to cut kilo-2 today if possible 16:06:24 rkukura: Ack, by tomorrow morning for sure. Just waiting on one final BP which has a single patch left, and a handful of bugs. 16:06:40 See https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ML2 for what’s left 16:07:23 Looks to me like the only items for ML2 that hasn’t yet merged but might is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1179223 16:07:59 Is Romil here? 16:09:00 This is the bug about tunnel allocations not getting cleaned up. Would be great to get reviews today from those most familiar with the type driver code. 16:09:28 Any other announcements? 16:10:11 #topic ML2 Drivers decomposition discussion 16:11:21 So its seems we are making progress on this, and there was discussion at the neutron IRC meeting Monday. What do we need to cover today? 16:11:34 Sukhdev: how did u maintain the history of comments for your driver (splited) 16:12:13 shivharis: what do you mean? 16:12:33 when you pull the stackforge repo - there are two ways to do it 16:12:59 1) you can pull the code directly from the neutron tree - that will keep all the history 16:13:23 Sukhdev: can we have a doc on code split like you have helping doc for CI. 16:13:29 2) you do not pull anything and get a clean repo - this will not keep any history and logs 16:13:49 how will your historical comments show up in the stackforge repo? 16:14:19 trinaths1: I might, if more people want it - but, you can look at my patches - it is all done and it is going in K2 today 16:14:23 if i do git log in stackforge will it show the comments logs from earlier releases? 16:14:31 shivharis: (doubt for new bee) "Historical Comments"? 16:15:03 when you make changes to your code - you maintain a history and the abitlity to go backwards 16:15:07 shivharis: if you created stackforge with 1) above, then, yes - otherwise no 16:15:40 shivharis: okay 16:15:57 shivharis: actually, I think before you take my word for it, please double check with infra folks 16:16:14 Sukhdev: how to init into stackforge with a project. - may be you can help me offline. 16:16:24 here is what i did: 16:16:41 trinaths1: please ping me off-line and I will help 16:16:49 Sukhdev: thanks you 16:17:03 you need to use "split.sh" to do the split and give it a list of files that you want to maintain the histroy and deltas for, including "tags" 16:17:30 so you will be able to go back to stable releases if you want to 16:18:28 appears folks have not tried this approach? 16:18:55 never mind lets move on... 16:18:58 shivharis: does it work if you are moving parts of the files? 16:19:21 granularity is a file 16:19:34 Sukhdev, if you can move the file and then in next rev edit and remove the parts you don't need. That way you have the history. 16:19:38 the entire history of the file is maintained 16:20:10 good to know… 16:20:31 OK, seems useful to include the history, but not critical since we are not decomposing for releases prior to kilo, right? 16:20:54 rkukura: correct - 16:21:09 rkukura: it depends on the plugin/driver, some plugins have long histories 16:21:24 rkukura: sometimes people wipe out content thinking they can go back. Only to realize a year later things moved around and that code is lost. 16:22:03 The history will remain in the neutron repo, so I don’t see risk of losing anything. 16:22:04 I think the problem will arise when you use a tag for neutron and a similar tag in not available in the driver 16:22:51 rkukura: that's true. 16:22:57 Any other issues related to decomposition that anyone would like to discuss today? 16:23:02 Sukhdev: what is the deadline for this code split? 16:23:17 trinaths1: You have until next release cycle 16:23:17 rkukura: maybe alright, but we need to specify a method the we commonly use? 16:23:25 Sukhdev: L ? 16:23:34 trinaths1: yes 16:23:37 k3? 16:23:44 shivharis: L-3 16:23:44 or L 16:23:48 ok 16:23:59 Sukhdev: Am I correct L-3 ? 16:24:11 trinaths1: yes 16:24:16 Do we know of drivers for which decomposition is planned for L rather than K? 16:24:39 rkukura: Hard to tell 16:24:44 I am shooting for k3 16:24:57 brocade is shooting for k3 16:25:23 as long as some work is initiated in Kilo, it is OK to complete in L 16:25:24 I have one more question: 16:25:24 I only see kilo mentioned in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OQN0VlKzKC1gYlxgalQXKDTGGWogWFRtD3S5OpepsX4/edit#gid=0 16:25:25 Freescale for L-1 16:25:41 trinaths1: OK, thanks 16:25:50 shivharis: go ahead 16:25:53 shivharis: keep in mind, you need two CIs working - before you declare victory 16:26:05 Sukhdev: two CI's ? 16:26:17 When you pull neutron, what are the steps needed to pull your stackforge, I just want to find out what others are doing 16:26:31 trinaths1: Yes - one for the neutron repo and another for stackforge repo 16:27:10 Sukhdev: but for stackforge, I see Jenkins like jobs apart from them We need Vendor CI ? 16:27:20 Sukhdev: Is the one for the neutron repo the one that runs the tempest tests using the decomposed driver and pulling in the stackforge repo? 16:27:21 is stackforge repo CI optional? 16:27:32 shivharis: +1 16:27:40 rkukura: yes 16:27:58 shivharis: no - how are you going to know if things are broken - 16:28:02 Sukhdev: And is the other the vendor’s own CI for the stackforge repo standalone? 16:28:08 shivharis: in fact, that is the most useful one 16:28:52 Sukhdev: confused? why we need a vendor CI for Stackforge? What tests does it run apart from Neutron -Vendor CI? 16:29:00 Sukhdev: I would think some vendors might consider unit tests in their stackforge repos sufficient, and depend on the neutron-based CI for integation testing. 16:29:16 rkukura: the stackforge CI to ensure the authencity of the vendor code 16:29:36 I am confused, CI means? 16:29:52 GLaupre: Continuous Integration Testing 16:30:23 You cannot run the vendor CI, since it imports "neutron" and "openstack" modules 16:30:25 There seems to be a confusion about CIs 16:30:42 is there documentation somewhere that can help with this confusion? 16:30:52 Sukhdev: I dont see how you can even run a standalone CI?^^^^^ 16:31:19 I’m not aware of any explciit requirement for “autromated standalone CI” of the stackforge repos. Vendors may be OK with just running the UTs as CI, or may want to test against their hardware. 16:31:37 TWO CIs are causing confusion on their importance and tests they run 16:32:33 If you are OK with the UT on the stackforge side, you may want to skip the CI - but, how are going to test the breakage between Neutron-and-vendor interaction? 16:32:56 standalone CI has to be optional, in some enviroments it may not even be possible 16:33:30 If you make a change to vendor code which breaks neutron-driver interaction - how do you intend to catch it? If your UTs are smart enough, you may not need it 16:33:59 My view is that only the neutron-based CI is required by the neutron community. How to develop and test the backend library is the vendor’s business. 16:34:12 rkukura: +1 16:34:33 rkukura: +2 16:34:50 Sorry got disconnected. Will check the logs later. 16:34:55 Sukhdev: Does that make sense to you, or do you feel there is a reuiqment here? 16:35:16 requirement 16:35:31 banix: still on decomposition 16:35:40 rkukura: I think you are probably correct - I have not read any requirement as such 16:36:08 Anything else on decomposition before we move on to sync and error handling? 16:36:14 rkukura: I believe as long as vendors ensure the integrity of their code, it is their own busniess 16:36:32 Sukhdev: agreed 16:36:33 I had an earlier questions... tracing back.. 16:36:37 rkukura: just a quick note 16:36:45 Sukhdev: that way, stackforge Vendor CIs are not of priority 16:37:07 Q: When you pull neutron, what are the steps needed to pull your stackforge, I just want to find out what others are doing 16:37:58 If you have a CI already running modifying it to do the tests for stackforge is very trivial - you simply look for additional triggers 16:38:21 shivharis: there are multiple ways to do it 16:38:31 listening... 16:38:56 Once you have finalized everything - it will be very trivial like "pip install networking_brocade" 16:39:08 Sorry this is what I wrote earlier but got lost: note some drivers may be not in StackForge so only one CI is required. 16:39:18 prior to finalizing everything - here is the quick way to test it 16:39:38 1) git clone 16:39:43 2) cd to it 16:39:54 3) python setup.py install 16:40:02 and you are done 16:40:07 pip install installs in the /usr/local I am talking about development environment 16:40:11 to test it - do the following 16:40:13 rkukura: should we document this somewhere? maybe Sukhdev or someone can volunteer to set something up and we could move on? 16:40:16 1) python 16:40:25 manishg: +1 16:40:36 2) >>>>import networking_brocade and you should see all the code 16:40:55 Should this go in the devref that armax has been working on? 16:41:30 rkukura:what devref? 16:41:38 Sukhdev: thanks, but how does one iterate this in the dev env 16:41:50 I'll be back in a couple of minutes. 16:42:08 http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/devref/ 16:42:12 shivharis: easy - in my CI, I have couple of lines before I fire off stack.sh 16:42:54 rkukura: tahnks 16:43:07 my question is prior to CI, I want to commit a change to stackforge, where was this stackforge deposited? 16:43:39 shivharis: you lost me 16:43:52 was this stackforge within the neutron tree? 16:43:55 manishg: I’d like to reserve a couple minutes at least for your update on sync/errors 16:44:18 rkukura: no worries. I'm here. 16:44:20 rkukura: +1 need to talk rsync! 16:44:39 rkukura: I also wanted to talk about the wiki and the format, etc. + how to proceed. 16:44:39 shivharis: still confused --- these are two separate repos, right? 16:44:56 rkukura: I have many questions, I dont want to occupy the entire meeting... 16:45:02 manishg: I took a look - it looked fine to me 16:45:17 rkukura: please move on.. 16:45:33 Sukhdev: cool. will propose some items when we get to that task in the meeting. 16:45:36 shivharis: Ping me off line and I will help you out 16:45:48 shivharis: If you are willing to capture info in a wiki or google doc, I’d expect those who’ve done this before will be happy to advize you offline 16:46:09 i have done most of it, i am getting finer points clarified 16:46:28 OK, lets move on… 16:46:42 shivharis: perhaps we can collectively put together a wiki for ML2 drivers 16:46:42 #topic ML2 Sync and error handling (Task Flow) 16:46:48 Sukhdev: has to take tutorials for me and manishg 16:47:12 rkukura: I followed up re the API/ RPC breakup in kilo 16:47:20 it's been pushed out to K-3. 16:47:24 I’d suggest capturing the knowledge in a wki or google doc, then we can see if it makes sense to add it to the devref later 16:47:28 Relevant specs are these: 16:47:35 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/wsgi-pecan-switch 16:47:41 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/plugin-interface-perestroika 16:48:10 I have resumed working on the patch re taskflow. It is a WIP. The main idea is 16:48:20 rkukura: you are referring to wiki/google doc for decomosition work, right? 16:48:33 manishg: please post the link o your wip patch 16:48:51 Sukhdev: right, but I didn’t want to undo the topic change ;) 16:49:16 to basically start a taskflow threadpool executor and dispatch tasks to it from the mech drivers. This was the simple start. And I'm going to start it based on some work done recently https://review.openstack.org/#/c/136950/ 16:49:19 rkukura: got it 16:49:43 This was done by Angus based on my earlier WIP. I'll take this and add more to it. The next steps in this ar 16:49:50 are to introduce intermediate states. 16:50:11 once that is done, the REST call can return without the mech drivers finishing up. 16:50:14 manishg: How about adding this to the Planned section of https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Tracking_ML2_Subgroup_Reviews with relevant links 16:50:30 rkukura: good idea. will add that today. 16:50:57 manishg: I think your thought process is correct 16:50:58 manishg: Does this approach provide any persistance for these tasks, in case the server dies before they complete? 16:51:11 who all are interested in this ? Sukhdev , shivharis and rkukura - I'll post a new patch today and email to you guyus. 16:51:44 manishg: yes, please do - may include banix_ as well 16:51:47 manishg: does the task take arguments for the callback? 16:51:48 rkukura: yes that can be done. but in the patch I want to go incrementally so people can see small changes (conceptually) at a time. 16:52:00 manishg: OK. Doesn’t hurt to CC openstack-dev if you want. 16:52:09 yes please 16:52:15 rkukura: ok, will do. 16:52:35 i am very interested in this 16:53:00 shivharis: yes, we can make it as complex or simple as needed. the capability can be added and the driver has the freedom to store any kind of state that it may need. 16:53:00 OK, we have 8 minutes. Lets continue this discussion next week after we’ve looked over the current code. 16:53:17 rkukura: sure. I'll add on to this by next week. 16:53:18 shivharis is willing pay extra royalty for this :-):-) 16:53:26 #topic Bugs 16:53:27 manishg: thanks 16:53:38 shivharis: want to cover this? 16:53:40 bugs... 16:54:00 :) 16:54:06 We have one high bug being handled by romilg 16:54:13 rkukura: wanted to just mention that re wiki people should add anything that should be reviewed in there. and remove it when done. 16:54:35 rest of the high bugs (being addressed by neutron cores) are now k3 16:54:37 manishg: sorry, didn’t mean to skip that topic 16:54:46 so we dont have any pressing bug for k2 16:54:50 but lets finish bugs first 16:55:18 we look fine for bugs at the moment. 16:55:20 rkukura: sure. 16:55:51 i am really done with bugs, no pressing need for k2 except the bug addressed buy romilg 16:56:04 please provide review help ASAP for that 16:56:12 I’ll review https://review.openstack.org/136106, others should too 16:56:31 #topic BPs 16:56:44 FYI - here is the content for K2 - https://launchpad.net/neutron/+milestone/kilo-2 16:56:46 wanted to say that we shouldn't expect someone to constantly scan gerit and update it for them. 16:57:03 that makes sense? 16:57:10 Thanks manishg for pairing down https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Tracking_ML2_Subgroup_Reviews to the active BPs 16:57:23 also, if the format needs to be changed, we can discuss it now. 16:57:43 e.g. we need to add more fields, etc. Looks like the current one is good enough for reviews and general tracking. 16:58:05 yamahata and shwetaap have been working on portsecurity - update? 16:58:18 For the port security bp, as per the suggestion yesterday i have two different patches. One for the modification on the extension api https://review.openstack.org/#/c/152759/ and the other for the specific port security driver. 16:58:28 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/150835/ 16:58:43 shwetaap - I added link to them both in the link 16:58:59 manishg: thanks 16:59:00 please verify them. also, when the code is merged, please clear it from here. 16:59:08 Lets review the extension driver API changes ASAP so they can move forward 16:59:25 rkukra: that's not in the list here? should be added? 16:59:38 I believe the two remaining HPB patches are ready to merge 17:00:00 thanks to help from matrohon on tracking down the DVR CI issue they were hitting 17:00:13 ok. If BP needs review or has code that relevant to BP then pls add here. 17:00:16 time check -1 mins left :-) 17:00:18 * Sukhdev time check 17:00:21 Time’s up - anything before we conclude? 17:00:28 ok i will add the link 17:00:40 Thanks everyone! 17:00:42 thanks rkukura! 17:00:42 bye all 17:00:44 thnaks 17:00:44 bye. 17:00:44 #endmeeting