[CentOS-devel] centos8 openvswitch-dpdk RPM

Alfredo Moralejo Alonso

amoralej at redhat.com
Mon Nov 16 14:31:39 UTC 2020


On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 3:28 PM Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alfredo,
>
> Last followup question, Once victora release comes out in future in
> that case does openstackvswitch2.13 will be default part of
> rdo-victoria packages right?  OR do i need to install
> centos-release-nfv-openvswitch extra repo to get that package to
> install?
>
>
No, it will be installed and enabled by default when installing
centos-release-openstack-victoria package or downloading [1] if you plan to
use RDO Trunk repo.

[1] https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8-victoria/delorean-deps.repo



> ~S
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:41 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
> <amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 4:42 PM Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just to follow up,
> >>
> >> I have successfully deployed ovs+dpdk on centOS-8 on ussuri using the
> >> following repo. (openvswitch2.13)
> >>
> >> dnf install -y centos-release-nfv-openvswitch
> >>
> >> Just curious why RPM package name is openvswitch2.13 instead of
> >> openvswitch-2-13 (Let me guess because of centOS RDO provides that
> >> same naming style right?)
> >
> >
> > Actually not. Those packages are rebuilt from Red Hat Fast Datapath
> repositories [1] which use those names. The actual reason is that those
> names allow to have openvswitch 2.11 and 2.13 in the same repositories and
> let user choose the version that each project wants to use from it.
> >
> > [1]
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/8Base/en/Fast-Datapath/SRPMS/
> >
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:34 AM Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > That is great news, it's coming back in victoria. Thanks for the
> update.
> >> >
> >> > For fun this is what i did, I downloaded openvswitch-2.12.x.x.x.srpm
> >> > and re-compile RPM with --with-dpdk support against dpdk-18.11 and i
> >> > was successfully able to produce RPM.
> >> >
> >> > I have installed RPM on my computer node and it looks good so far, i
> >> > am successfully able to add my nic to OVS using DPDK interface. I have
> >> > noticed CPU usage of ovs-vswitchd showing 100% but it looks like that
> >> > is expected behavior.
> >> >
> >> > [root at compute-2 ~]# ovs-vswitchd --version
> >> > ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch) 2.12.0
> >> > DPDK 18.11.2
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > [root at compute-2 ~]# ovs-vsctl show
> >> > Bridge br-provider
> >> >         Controller "tcp:127.0.0.1:6633"
> >> >             is_connected: true
> >> >         fail_mode: secure
> >> >         datapath_type: netdev
> >> >         Port phy-br-provider
> >> >             Interface phy-br-provider
> >> >                 type: patch
> >> >                 options: {peer=int-br-provider}
> >> >         Port br-provider
> >> >             Interface br-provider
> >> >                 type: internal
> >> >         Port "dpdk-0"
> >> >             Interface "dpdk-0"
> >> >                 type: dpdk
> >> >                 options: {dpdk-devargs="0000:06:00.0"}
> >> >     ovs_version: "2.12.0"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I didn't see any issue so very curious when you said openvswitch-2.12
> >> > is broken. I would like to know more if i am doing wrong.
> >> >
> >> > I am running a fairly large openstack cloud using LinuxBridge/SR-IOV
> >> > and am very happy with simplicity. First time I am trying to deploy
> >> > OpenvSwitch in the lab to see how everything looks, a little nervous
> >> > because I heard lots of nightmare stories from various folks, but it
> >> > looks like the future is OVS.
> >> >
> >> > I will try NFV repo and see how it goes :)
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 4:59 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
> >> > <amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 6:04 PM Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Thanks for reply,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I am using Openstack-Ansible deployment tool to run Openstack. I am
> >> > >> running a stable/ussuri release at the moment. current OVS package
> >> > >> coming from rdo-dep repository of Ussuri release. It would be
> great if
> >> > >> we have openvswitch+DPDK supported RPM for that repo, otherwise i
> am
> >> > >> stuck here and i have to re-compile RPM myself and need to pushout
> >> > >> with a custom repo.  (Does victoria going to support the DPDK
> version
> >> > >> of openvswitch?)
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > yes, Victoria has openvsiwtch 2.13 with dpdk enabled.
> >> > >
> >> > > if you can move to victoria, it would be the easiest way and my
> recommendation.
> >> > >
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >> [root at compute-1 SPECS]# ovs-vswitchd --version
> >> > >> ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch) 2.12.0
> >> > >> [root at compute-1 SPECS]#
> >> > >>
> >> > >> [root at compute-1 SPECS]# repoquery -i openvswitch
> >> > >> Last metadata expiration check: 2:57:01 ago on Tue 03 Nov 2020
> 06:02:46 AM PST.
> >> > >> Name         : openvswitch
> >> > >> Version      : 2.12.0
> >> > >> Release      : 1.1.el8
> >> > >> Architecture : aarch64
> >> > >> Size         : 1.9 M
> >> > >> Source       : openvswitch-2.12.0-1.1.el8.src.rpm
> >> > >> Repository   : rdo-deps
> >> > >>
> >> > >> [root at compute-1 SPECS]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rdo-deps.repo
> >> > >> [rdo-deps]
> >> > >> module_hotfixes=1
> >> > >> baseurl = https://trunk.rdoproject.org/centos8-ussuri/deps/latest/
> >> > >>
> >> > >
> >> > > AFAIK, Ussuri should work also with 2.13 but you need to do some
> steps:
> >> > >
> >> > > 1. Add NFV SIG repository:
> >> > >
> >> > > dnf install -y centos-release-nfv-openvswitch
> >> > >
> >> > > 2. Package name change in NFS SIG from openvswitch to
> openvswitch2.13 so you need some wrapper packages for compatibility. You
> can download those wrappers from
> https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31051 (you need all RPMs in
> noarch list), create a local repository with them and add it to all nodes
> in the cluster.
> >> > >
> >> > > Update all nodes and you should get openvswitch updated to new
> packages openvswitch2.13 (and ovn2.13 if you are using ovn). Note that you
> may need to re-enable and restart openvswitch services manually after the
> update.
> >> > >
> >> > >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:47 AM Alfredo Moralejo Alonso
> >> > >> <amoralej at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Hi,
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 3:48 PM Satish Patel <
> satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> Folks,
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> Recently i started playing with openvswitch on centOS for
> openstack
> >> > >> >> SDN, and found centos8 doesn't have openvswitch with dpdk
> support, I
> >> > >> >> was looking around RPM but didn't find any RPM also, do i need
> to
> >> > >> >> compile openviswtch+dpdk support or rpm is available but i am
> not
> >> > >> >> aware of it.
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > The build of openvswitch included in Train and Ussuri,
> openvswitch-2.12-1.el8 has dpdk support disabled as it doesn't work with
> the version of dpdk included in CentOS 8.2.
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Since Victoria we have openvswitch 2.13 with dpdk enabled coming
> from NFV SIG builds. We may backport this to Ussuri although we need to
> validate if it breaks updates somehow, so it's still work in progress.
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > RDO Victoria will be announced very soon (we are in the process
> of pushing latest required builds to CentOS official mirrors today).
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > What version of RDO are you using and how are you deploying it?
> are you using TripleO?, depending on it, we may be able to provide some
> workaround to update OpenvSwitch to the latest openvswitch manually.
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Regards,
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Alfredo
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> >> ~S
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