[VOL-2995] Improve Core performance

This commit consists of the following changes with the aim to
improve the Core performance:

1) Use a hybrid approach of pre-route calculation and route
calculation on-demand.  For example, attempts to pre-calculate
routes will be done whenever a nni/uni port is discovered.  The
attempt may fail if there are not enough ports to generate a
route.  When a flow is received and the route is not available
then only the route relevant to that flow will be created on
demand.

2) Changes some of the route calculation flow such that the
process does not need to go and grab the latest version of the
device which could lead to higher latency, expecially if that
device is busy with other processing.

3) Change the logic when reporting added ports to ONOS such that
routes are calculated (at least an attempt made) before sending
a port create notification to ONOS.

4) Move peer port creation into its own go routine thereby
removing the lock on a child device much earlier.

5) Wait until a request for port capability is received before
removing the lock on a device.   A better approach is required
where the adapter will need to report the port capability along
with the port creation event.  However, this require another
Jira as changes will be required in the API.

6) Remove some unnecessary proto.clones.  Those are the obvious
ones.  Removal of other proto.clones will be done in a separate
commit.

7) Fix a core panic when concurrent requests are made to the
route map

Change-Id: I2bafc99dbf10d7026572a44af0b88a31b5eb1887
11 files changed
tree: cea688df8fa14faa65fa4dedfb1d249226d6f426
  1. .gitignore
  2. .gitreview
  3. .golangci.yml
  4. BUILD.md
  5. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  6. Makefile
  7. README.md
  8. VERSION
  9. compose/
  10. db/
  11. docker/
  12. go.mod
  13. go.sum
  14. quickstart.md
  15. rw_core/
  16. tests/
  17. vendor/
README.md

VOLTHA

What is Voltha?

Voltha aims to provide a layer of abstraction on top of legacy and next generation access network equipment for the purpose of control and management. Its initial focus is on PON (GPON, EPON, NG PON 2), but it aims to go beyond to eventually cover other access technologies (xDSL, Docsis, G.FAST, dedicated Ethernet, fixed wireless).

Key concepts of Voltha:

  • Network as a Switch: It makes a set of connected access network devices to look like a(n abstract) programmable flow device, a L2/L3/L4 switch. Examples:
    • PON as a Switch
    • PON + access backhaul as a Switch
    • xDSL service as a Switch
  • Evolution to virtualization: it can work with a variety of (access) network technologies and devices, including legacy, fully virtualized (in the sense of separation of hardware and software), and in between. Voltha can run on a decice, on general purpose servers in the central office, or in data centers.
  • Unified OAM abstraction: it provides unified, vendor- and technology agnostic handling of device management tasks, such as service lifecycle, device lifecycle (including discovery, upgrade), system monitoring, alarms, troubleshooting, security, etc.
  • Cloud/DevOps bridge to modernization: it does all above while also treating the abstracted network functions as software services manageable much like other software components in the cloud, i.e., containers.

Why Voltha?

Control and management in the access network space is a mess. Each access technology brings its own bag of protocols, and on top of that vendors have their own interpretation/extension of the same standards. Compounding the problem is that these vendor- and technology specific differences ooze way up into the centralized OSS systems of the service provider, creating a lot of inefficiencies.

Ideally, all vendor equipment for the same access technology should provide an identical interface for control and management. Moreover, there shall be much higher synergies across technologies. While we wait for vendors to unite, Voltha provides an increment to that direction, by confining the differences to the locality of access and hiding them from the upper layers of the OSS stack.

How can you work with Voltha?

You can start by reading the published documentation.
Another great way is to check out the BUILD.md file to see how you can build it, run it, test it, etc.

How can you help?

Contributions, small and large, are welcome. Minor contributions and bug fixes are always welcome in form of pull requests. For larger work, the best is to check in with the existing developers to see where help is most needed and to make sure your solution is compatible with the general philosophy of Voltha. Please check out the contributing page on the documentation.