neutron/neutron/conf/plugins/ml2/drivers/openvswitch/mech_ovs_conf.py

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# Copyright (c) 2018 Ericsson
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from oslo_config import cfg
from neutron._i18n import _
ovs_driver_opts = [
cfg.ListOpt('vnic_type_blacklist',
default=[],
help=_("Comma-separated list of VNIC types for which support "
"is administratively prohibited by the mechanism "
"driver. Please note that the supported vnic_types "
"depend on your network interface card, on the kernel "
"version of your operating system, and on other "
"factors, like OVS version. In case of ovs mechanism "
"driver the valid vnic types are normal and direct. "
"Note that direct is supported only from kernel 4.8, "
"and from ovs 2.8.0. Bind DIRECT (SR-IOV) port allows "
"to offload the OVS flows using tc to the SR-IOV NIC. "
"This allows to support hardware offload via tc and "
"that allows us to manage the VF by OpenFlow control "
"plane using representor net-device.")),
]
def register_ovs_mech_driver_opts(cfg=cfg.CONF):
cfg.register_opts(ovs_driver_opts, "OVS_DRIVER")