[Engine-devel] Network related hooks in vdsm

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>
> To: "Igor Lvovsky" <ilvovsky at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Dan Yasny" <dyasny at redhat.com>, "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "vdsm-devel"
> <vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:53:19 AM
> 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.
> 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

What about some way of doing a push that's not tied to an event - if we want to "push" something



> >
> >
> > 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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