Neutron QoS service plugin

Finally, I’ve been able to record a video showing how the QoS service plugin works.If you want to deploy this follow the instructions under the video. (open in vimeo for better quality)

Deployment instructions

Add to your devstack/local.conf

enable_plugin neutron git://git.openstack.org/openstack/neutron
enable_service q-qos

Let stack!

~/devstack/stack.sh

now create rules to allow traffic to the VM port 22 & ICMP

source ~/devstack/accrc/demo/demo

neutron security-group-rule-create  --direction ingress \
                                --port-range-min 22     \
                                --port-range-max 22     \
                                default

neutron security-group-rule-create --protocol icmp     \
                                   --direction ingress \
                                   default

nova net-list
nova boot --image cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec \
          --flavor m1.tiny \
          --nic net-id=*your-net-id* qos-cirros
#wait....

nova show qos-cirros  # look for the IP
neutron port-list # look for the IP and find your *port id*

In another console, run the packet pusher

ssh cirros@$THE_IP_ADDRESS \
     'dd if=/dev/zero  bs=1M count=1000000000'

In yet another console, look for the port and monitor it

# given a port id 49d4a680-4236-4d0c-9feb-8b4990ac35b9
# look for the ovs port:
$ sudo ovs-vsctl show | grep qvo49d4a680-42
       Port "qvo49d4a680-42"
           Interface "qvo49d4a680-42"

finally, try the QoS rules

source ~/devstack/accrc/admin/admin

neutron qos-policy-create bw-limiter
neutron qos-bandwidth-limit-rule-create *rule-id* \
        bw-limiter \
        --max-kbps 3000 --max-burst-kbps 300

# after next command, the port will quickly
# go down to 3Mbps
neutron port-update *your-port-id* --qos-policy bw-limiter

You can change rules in runtime, and ports will be updated

neutron qos-bandwidth-limit-rule-update *rule-id* \
        bw-limiter \
        --max-kbps 5000 --max-burst-kbps 500

Or you can remove the policy from the port, and traffic will spike up fast to the original maximum.

neutron port-update *your-port-id* --no-qos-policy