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[ovs-dev,13/12,v7] NEWS: Add note on infrastructure for plug providers.

Message ID 20211025155904.169183-1-frode.nordahl@canonical.com
State Superseded
Delegated to: Han Zhou
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Series Introduce infrastructure for plug providers | expand

Commit Message

Frode Nordahl Oct. 25, 2021, 3:59 p.m. UTC
Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl@canonical.com>
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 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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Frode Nordahl Oct. 25, 2021, 4:26 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:59 PM Frode Nordahl
<frode.nordahl@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl@canonical.com>
> ---
>  NEWS | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 5f448e67d..7a993a0be 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Post v21.09.0
>      if not desired.
>    - Added Load_Balancer_Group support, which simplifies large scale
>      configurations of load balancers.
> +  - Introduced infrastructure for plug providers.  When OVN is linked with an
> +    appropriate plug implementation, such as OVN VIF [0], CMS can request OVN
> +    to plug lports.  This is particularly useful in topologies where the
> +    ovn-controller process is running on SmartNIC control plane CPUs.  Please
> +    refer to Documentation/topics/plug_providers/plug-providers.rst for more
> +    information.
> +    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif
>
>  OVN v21.09.0 - 01 Oct 2021
>  --------------------------
> --
> 2.32.0

As promised I added a patch with a NEWS addition at the tip of the series.

I have also staged a repository that should be suitable for
upstreaming at https://github.com/fnordahl/ovn-vif

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Frode Nordahl
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5f448e67d..7a993a0be 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@  Post v21.09.0
     if not desired.
   - Added Load_Balancer_Group support, which simplifies large scale
     configurations of load balancers.
+  - Introduced infrastructure for plug providers.  When OVN is linked with an
+    appropriate plug implementation, such as OVN VIF [0], CMS can request OVN
+    to plug lports.  This is particularly useful in topologies where the
+    ovn-controller process is running on SmartNIC control plane CPUs.  Please
+    refer to Documentation/topics/plug_providers/plug-providers.rst for more
+    information.
+    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif
 
 OVN v21.09.0 - 01 Oct 2021
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