.. _ovn_sriov: ==================== SR-IOV guide for OVN ==================== The purpose of this page is to describe how SR-IOV works with OVN. Prior to reading this document, it is recommended to first read :ref:`the basic guide for SR-IOV`. External ports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In order for SR-IOV to work with the Neutron driver we are leveraging the `external ports `_ feature from the OVN project. When virtual machines are booted on hypervisors supporting SR-IOV nics, the local ovn-controllers are unable to reply to the VM's DHCP, internal DNS, IPv6 router solicitation requests, etc... since the hypervisor is bypassed in the SR-IOV case. OVN then introduced the idea of having ``external`` ports which are able to reply on behalf of those VM ports external to the hypervisor that they are running on. The OVN Neutron driver will create a port of the type ``external`` for ports with the following VNICs set: * direct * direct-physical * macvtap Also, ports of the type ``external`` will be scheduled on the gateway nodes (controller or networker nodes) in HA mode by the OVN Neutron driver. Check the `OVN Database information`_ section for more information. Environment setup for OVN SR-IOV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are a very few differences between setting up an environment for SR-IOV for the OVS and OVN Neutron drivers. As mentioned at the beginning of this document, the instructions from the :ref:`the basic guide for SR-IOV` are required for getting SR-IOV working with the OVN driver. The only differences required for an OVN deployment are: * When configuring the ``mechanism_drivers`` in the *ml2_conf.ini* file we should specify ``ovn`` driver instead of the ``openvswitch`` driver * Disabling the Neutron DHCP agent * Deploying the OVN Metadata agent on the gateway nodes (controller or networker nodes) OVN Database information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before getting into the ports information, the previous sections talks about **gateway nodes**, the OVN Neutron driver identifies a gateway node by the ``ovn-cms-options=enable-chassis-as-gw`` and ``ovn-bridge-mappings`` options in the external_ids column from the ``Chassis`` table in the OVN Southbound database: .. code-block:: bash $ ovn-sbctl list Chassis _uuid : 12b13aff-a821-4cde-a4ac-d9cf8e2c91bc external_ids : {ovn-cms-options=enable-chassis-as-gw, ovn-bridge-mappings="public:br-ex", ...} hostname : controller-0 name : "1a462946-ccfd-46a6-8abf-9dca9eb558fb" ... .. end For more information about both of these options, please take a look at the `ovn-controller documentation `_. These options can be set by running the following command locally on each gateway node (note, the ``ovn-bridge-mappings`` will need to be adapted to your environment): .. code-block:: bash $ ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . external-ids:ovn-cms-options=\"enable-chassis-as-gw\" external-ids:ovn-bridge-mappings=\"public:br-ex\" .. end As mentioned in the `External ports`_ section, every time a Neutron port with a certain VNIC is created the OVN driver will create a port of the type ``external`` in the OVN Northbound database. These ports can be found by issuing the following command: .. code-block:: bash $ ovn-nbctl find Logical_Switch_Port type=external _uuid : 105e83ae-252d-401b-a1a7-8d28ec28a359 ha_chassis_group : [43047e7b-4c78-4984-9788-6263fcc69885] type : external ... .. end The ``ha_chassis_group`` column indicates which HA Chassis Group that port belongs to, to find that group do: .. code-block:: bash # The UUID is the one from the ha_chassis_group column from # the Logical_Switch_Port table $ ovn-nbctl list HA_Chassis_Group 43047e7b-4c78-4984-9788-6263fcc69885 _uuid : 43047e7b-4c78-4984-9788-6263fcc69885 external_ids : {} ha_chassis : [3005bf84-fc95-4361-866d-bfa1c980adc8, 72c7671e-dd48-4100-9741-c47221672961] name : default_ha_chassis_group .. end .. note:: For now, the OVN driver only has one HA Chassis Group created called ``default_ha_chassis_group``. All ``external`` ports in the system will belong to this group. The chassis that are members of the ``default_ha_chassis_group`` HA Chassis Group are listed in the ``ha_chassis`` column. Those are the gateway nodes (controller or networker nodes) in the deployment and it's where the ``external`` ports will be scheduled. In order to find which gateway node the external ports are scheduled on use the following command: .. code-block:: bash # The UUIDs are the UUID members of the HA Chassis Group # (ha_chassis column from the HA_Chassis_Group table) $ ovn-nbctl list HA_Chassis 3005bf84-fc95-4361-866d-bfa1c980adc8 72c7671e-dd48-4100-9741-c47221672961 _uuid : 3005bf84-fc95-4361-866d-bfa1c980adc8 chassis_name : "1a462946-ccfd-46a6-8abf-9dca9eb558fb" external_ids : {} priority : 32767 _uuid : 72c7671e-dd48-4100-9741-c47221672961 chassis_name : "a0cb9d55-a6da-4f84-857f-d4b674088c8c" external_ids : {} priority : 32766 .. end Note the ``priority`` column from the previous command, the chassis with the highest ``priority`` from that list is the chassis that will have the external ports scheduled on it. In our example above, the chassis with the UUID ``1a462946-ccfd-46a6-8abf-9dca9eb558fb`` is the one. Whenever the chassis with the highest priority goes down, the ports will be automatically scheduled on the next chassis with the highest priority which is alive. So, the external ports are HA out of the box. Known limitations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The current SR-IOV implementation for the OVN Neutron driver has a few known limitations that should be addressed in the future: #. At the moment, **all** external ports will be scheduled on a single gateway node since there's only one HA Chassis Group for all of those ports. #. Routing on VLAN tenant network will not work with SR-IOV. This is because the external ports are not being co-located with the logical router's gateway ports, for more information take a look at `bug #1875852 `_.