Re: [Engine-devel] Network related hooks in vdsm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul(a)redhat.com>
To: "Igor Lvovsky" <ilvovsky(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "vdsm-devel" <vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>,
"engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>, "Dan Yasny"
<dyasny(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:53:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Network related hooks in vdsm
On 10/10/2012 04:47 PM, Igor Lvovsky wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> As you know vdsm has hooks mechanism and we already support dozen
> of hooks for different needs.
> Now it's a network's time.
> We would like to get your comments regarding our proposition for
> network related hooks.
>
> In general we are planning to prepare framework for future support
> of bunch network related hooks.
> Some of them already proposed by Itzik Brown [1] and Dan Yasny [2].
>
> Below you can find the additional hooks list that we propose:
>
> Note: In the first stage we can implement these hooks without any
> parameters, just to provide an entry point
> for simple hooks.
>
> Networks manipulation:
> - before_add_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_add_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - before_del_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_del_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - before_edit_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_edit_network(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - TBD
>
> Bondings manipulations:
Bond might be interesting because it may require switch configuration
-
but so will VLAN changes, so perhaps triggers in VLAN changes are
worthwhile as well.
You are right, but in our implementation VLAN changes are part of network manipulation.
So, it's already covered by list above
Y.
> - before_add_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_add_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - before_del_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_del_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - before_edit_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - after_edit_bond(conf={}, customProperty={})
> - TBD
>
> General purpose:
> - before_persist_network
> - after_persist_network
>
>
> Now we just need to figure out the use cases.
>
> Your input more than welcome...
>
> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7224/ - Adding hooks support for
> NIC hotplug
> [2] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7547/ - Hook: Cisco VM-FEX
> support
>
>
> Regards,
> Igor Lvovsky
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