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[ovs-dev,v8,4/4] NEWS: Add note on infrastructure for VIF plug providers.

Message ID 20211102112916.3368168-5-frode.nordahl@canonical.com
State Superseded
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Series Introduce infrastructure for VIF plug providers | expand

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Frode Nordahl Nov. 2, 2021, 11:29 a.m. UTC
Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <frode.nordahl@canonical.com>
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 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Han Zhou Nov. 5, 2021, 7:44 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:29 AM 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..65bf7d30f 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 VIF plug providers.  When OVN is
linked with
> +    an appropriate VIF plug provider, 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/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst for
> +    more information.
> +    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif

I think it is better to add the link in a separate patch when it is really
created.

Acked-by: Han Zhou <hzhou@ovn.org>

>
>  OVN v21.09.0 - 01 Oct 2021
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Frode Nordahl Nov. 5, 2021, 11:51 a.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 8:44 AM Han Zhou <zhouhan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 4:29 AM 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..65bf7d30f 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 VIF plug providers.  When OVN is linked with
> > +    an appropriate VIF plug provider, 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/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst for
> > +    more information.
> > +    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif
>
> I think it is better to add the link in a separate patch when it is really created.

Ack, will remove the link and add that as a separate patch.
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Patch

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5f448e67d..65bf7d30f 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 VIF plug providers.  When OVN is linked with
+    an appropriate VIF plug provider, 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/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst for
+    more information.
+    [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-vif
 
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