Add support for MacVTap to Neutron linuxbridge agent and ml2 plugin

Registered by Andreas Scheuring

This blueprint extends the Neutron Linuxbridge ml2 plugin and agent to also
support instance nic attachments via MacVTap.

MacVTap as virtual interface type will be introduced in the nova blueprint
"macvtap-vif"

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Andreas Scheuring
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Andreas Scheuring
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None
Completed by
Andreas Scheuring

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/extends,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/117505
    This blueprint extends the Neutron Linuxbridge ml2 plugin and agent to also support instance nic attachments via MacVTap.

Moving this proposal out to L release. We need some additional time for evaluation and performance testing.

Replace by https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1480979

(?)

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