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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] hotplug/Linux: Add --wait to iptables calls.



On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 04:17:51PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 16:08 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 01.06.15 at 16:59, <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > --- a/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh
> > > +++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh
> > > @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ frob_iptable()
> > >      local c="-D"
> > >    fi
> > >  
> > > -  iptables "$c" FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged --physdev-in 
> > > "$dev" \
> > > +  iptables --wait "$c" FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged 
> > > --physdev-in "$dev" \
> > >      "$@" -j ACCEPT 2>/dev/null &&
> > > -  iptables "$c" FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged --physdev-out 
> > > "$dev" \
> > > +  iptables --wait "$c" FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged 
> > > --physdev-out "$dev" \
> > >      -j ACCEPT 2>/dev/null
> > >  
> > >    if [ \( "$command" == "online" -o "$command" == "add" \) -a $? -ne 0 ]
> > 
> > Looking at my oldest system's "iptables --help" I can't spot such an
> > option (which doesn't necessarily mean it's not supported). Did you
> > make sure all (older) distros we care about actually support this?

--wait does not appear work on a debian weezy (Debian 7.8).

> It's not really clear if/why --wait is the solution to the problem of
> another party using iptables-{save,restore} to do their own network
> management in the first place.
> 
> If OpenStack is doing save/modify/restore then what stops us rewriting
> things in the middle and then getting those changes clobbered on
> restore? Surely iptables-save can't exit holding the lock...

That could be an issue.

> And if nova-network is managing networking do we really need to do it
> too?

I will investigate in that, check what there are doing, and what we are
doing. The solution might just be a script=none.

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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