Re: [Engine-devel] Network related hooks in vdsm
----- Original Message -----
On 10/10/12 16:47, 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:
>
Many of the API calls bellow are deprecated. Why do we want to add
hooks
before/after to deprecated APIs?
They are actually still very much in use with the REST API.
Perhaps we should address just the logical entry points instead of specific commands.
A command such as setup networks can trigger multiple logical events in which hooks can be
planted (same goes for edit network in a smaller scale).
> 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:
> - 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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