we require to invoke send_string/recv_string methods when
sending unicode.

Change-Id: I26804ae3666f57b183eb0e987a4d23a14e59035e
(cherry picked from commit a53662ee)

Co-authored-by: Moshe Levi <moshele@mellanox.com>

Change-Id: I9ecfaa798c8066d07bbbf3e22ab82ddc9b553274
(cherry picked from commit 6b54282d)

This patch configure the mlnx sdn port binding
for InfiniBand physnet by default. It also disable the sdn
sync.

Change-Id: I8752f54d7c84c1c0c4032fd4f1bb49eef7069e19
(cherry picked from commit 883d0201)

This fix the issue when sync it disable and network
is not flat we skip the binding of the normal port.

This patch update the logic to always bind normal ports
for IB physnet

Change-Id: I37d662f13d287619ffe22e371ace155ad2d51841
(cherry picked from commit 652e2dcb)

This commit clarifies two config opts description
that were recently added.

Change-Id: Ic94926a11b044facbca6851c7b17087d72b023aa
(cherry picked from commit ea5561f6)

Change-Id: Ic35976e9b45f2f2b949ddd2b330f6efc8d07a8c9
(cherry picked from commit c04aea75)

Changed the way the method check the updated port such that it will
check for extra opts then the mac, if any of the two conditions is
not met, the updated port get generated again

Change-Id: Ic87443966f5e39742b813ea2ca770261716071d2
(cherry picked from commit d3932371)

Changed the get_vf_device_type way of getting the type of pf netdevices
by using sysfs to read the driver name instead of relying on the PCI device
ID.

Change-Id: I6f1f722dffcf990e3ae6b514fb560596cea23c4b
(cherry picked from commit 6e9ebbb2)

Change-Id: I4087814a6e6483a64dba9bd3a1ce903c664a024a

This patch removes a redundant call to set vlan during port_up
operation.

Change-Id: Ic7b078b00ba0392ad6b938bee137de471f4d2fb1
(cherry picked from commit ff0c523a)

Change-Id: Ibf5d16646c3d9e6ff8f7adafbf449f5f61fb7dfb

Change-Id: I9173ee97cbbf236cf9018abb9661bfc0a2ad7e5c

This change modifies `enable_multi_interface_driver_cache_maintenance`
config opt default to True for the obvious reason that we rather have
this enabled by default than having to specify this in a config opt.

Change-Id: I98c12772ec1b8bc69d070a7a67db283c9148fe83

NetworkCache get() method, in case of a cache miss called
put() method with the newly fetched network object via rpc.

Since SafeNetworkCache simply wrapped the calls with a rw lock,
it caused a dead lock in case of a cache miss since a get operation
would also put.

Proposed fix is to split the get and put logic of NetworkCache.get
into two and re-implement get in SafeNetworkCache.

Unit-test which uses a real lock in case of cache miss was
added.

Change-Id: I94fe2bcea80bb32d2c8ff8ed67194e860fd93ea9

To support L3 (DHCP, Routing, Floating Ip) services
over Infiniband fabric, it is required that the L2
driver to support binding of normal ports.

- Internal ports only: router(non-dvr), dhcp, floating ip
- Add configuration option to enable this functionality
- Add configuration option that defines a list of physnets
  to perform the binding for normal ports. This is intended
  to allow co-existance of both eth and ib fabrics when one
  would like to use the sdn mechanism driver to configure VLANs
  for switches on one physnet but doesnt want normal ports
  to be binded to this mechanism driver.

Change-Id: Ie11af47891273982d6c9eec92637e87affa37595
TODO: Add unit tests & documentation

Change-Id: Ie94a6f964eb3b9f149be78e5b70485f4852260c1

Change-Id: I9186c65b80d50759261530f9e01e6bb2f1d8a83c

This commits adds a new interface driver: MultiInterfaceDriver
which is a per-physnet interface driver.
The driver delegates operations to other drivers on a per-physnet
basis.

- new multi interface driver : MultiInterfaceDriver
- utilization of the network_cache module in the driver
- Configuration option for performing periodic cache maintenance
  which removes stale entries from cache
- Configuration option for providing <physnet:interface_driver> mapping
- expose MultiInterfaceDriver as 'multi' entry point

Change-Id: Id27829569500af7e99e765c9e9c71b206ec8a89a

Change-Id: Ib72d5b83822af5c8cd266574a2c45496d4036ba7

Change-Id: I4ed395111161995d2778aac9bf4b878334e157fb

Change-Id: I04c959baa84a958a8ddc128baaa719904dcb166c

This commit adds a new module that provides caching functionality
for:

1. General objects
2. Network objects

The network cache module will be used by MultiInterfaceDriver
that will be introduced in the next commit.

Change-Id: I5b51a9f778923de48d550f132199b5cf24b37f40

Add IPoIB interface driver to be used for [un]plugging ipoib
interface.

- Add IPoIBInterfaceDriver
- extend ip_lib to allow creating/deleting ipoib device
- add configuration option that determines the IPoIB root device
  the root device will be used when creating ipoib interfaces on top
  of it.

NOTE: the driver depends on the following neutron changes:
      https://review.opendev.org/#/c/670721
      https://review.opendev.org/#/c/670723
      And the following pyroute2 commit:
      https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2/commit/41e7b3d43881710f2ef66318bba78cbd07403f79

Change-Id: Id2fa748152f576360ee1a34e684262a704351820

Change-Id: Iaddf3403a8b6bc03b148f3cfd43fe17c195a52fa

Change-Id: Iaa3d98a1b1f4f938b98f383417935d5cc18931ed

Change-Id: Id2cae3ac9ff049e9fc8225551f99e1e99a87fc65

Change-Id: I805dc0d6794ff2e94c7e9649582bf61e96b3cd3f

Change-Id: I84b6b2aad60b5b3c22d1292b2bc11cec9b425c16

Change-Id: I83ba28ca0901de87f0d0f2607aed81100bd11c68