Some more info added to Jakub's excellent report :)

New kernel Ubuntu-4.4.0-89.112HEADUbuntu-4.4.0-89.112master was
tagged 9 days ago (07/31/2017) [0].

>From a quick look, the only commit around this function is [1].

[0]
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/commit/?id=64de31ed97a03ec1b86fd4f76e445506dce55b02
[1]
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/commit/?id=2ad4caea651e1cc0fc86111ece9f9d74de825b78

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Jakub Libosvar <jlibo...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Daniel Alvarez and I spent some time looking at it and the culprit was
> finally found.
>
> tl;dr
>
> We updated a kernel on machines to one containing bug when creating
> conntrack entries which makes functional tests stuck. More info at [4].
>
> For now, I sent a patch [5] to disable for now jobs that create
> conntrack entries manually, it needs update of commit message. Once it
> merges, we an enable back functional job to voting to avoid regressions.
>
> Is it possible to switch used image for jenkins machines to use back the
> older version? Any other ideas how to deal with the kernel bug?
>
> Thanks
> Jakub
>
> [5] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/492068/1
>
> On 07/08/2017 11:52, Jakub Libosvar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as per grafana [1] the functional job is broken. Looking at logstash [2]
> > it started happening consistently since 2017-08-03 16:27. I didn't find
> > any particular patch in Neutron that could cause it.
> >
> > The culprit is that ovsdb starts misbehaving [3] and then we retry calls
> > indefinitely. We still use 2.5.2 openvswitch as we had before. I opened
> > a bug [4] and started investigation, I'll update my findings there.
> >
> > I think at this point there is no reason to run "recheck" on your
> patches.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jakub
> >
> > [1]
> > http://grafana.openstack.org/dashboard/db/neutron-failure-
> rate?panelId=7&fullscreen
> > [2] http://bit.ly/2vdKMwy
> > [3]
> > http://logs.openstack.org/14/488914/8/check/gate-neutron-
> dsvm-functional-ubuntu-xenial/75d7482/logs/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.txt.gz
> > [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1709032
> >
>
>
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