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| author | Moshe Levi <moshele@mellanox.com> | 2016-01-04 10:47:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Moshe Levi <moshele@mellanox.com> | 2016-08-14 09:14:34 +0300 |
| commit | 8f251134e85e07880725413b461c4e6ab9f67a31 (patch) | |
| tree | 800d724440db43c3c22b80fe439ca3eba08369ef /releasenotes | |
| parent | 5987c6f9c8a53e98d5a2850cdb8937cff231b103 (diff) | |
| download | ironic-8f251134e85e07880725413b461c4e6ab9f67a31.tar.gz | |
Adding InfiniBand Support
InfiniBand is computer-networking communications standard
used in high-performance computing, features very high
throughput and very low latency. Where ethernet uses MAC
as unique identifier assigned to network interfaces,
InfiniBand uses GUID. The difference is
that MAC is 6 bytes and GID is 8 bytes. Moreover to be
able to PXE boot on InfiniBand network we should use DHCP
over InfiniBand https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4390.
The major changes to allow it is to generate client-id per
GID and add it as DHCP option to the neutron port.
This patch update the neutron port with CLient-ID
DHCP option when ironic port.extra has client-id
paramater.
Closes-Bug: #1532534
Change-Id: Ifad453977e5d3be64b34e544f269835a72b4d73f
Diffstat (limited to 'releasenotes')
| -rw-r--r-- | releasenotes/notes/add_infiniband_support-f497767f77277a1a.yaml | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add_infiniband_support-f497767f77277a1a.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add_infiniband_support-f497767f77277a1a.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..10b369b67 --- /dev/null +++ b/releasenotes/notes/add_infiniband_support-f497767f77277a1a.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +--- +features: + - Add support for InfiniBand network to allow + Hardware inspection and PXE boot over InfiniBand. |