On 11.02.2026 17:22, Alexandra Rukomoinikova wrote:
> On 11.02.2026 17:11, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>> On 2/9/26 3:06 PM, Ales Musil via dev wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM Alexandra Rukomoinikova
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) Added new option "distributed" for load balancers.
>>>>     With this feature, balancers will work distributedly across compute
>>>> nodes,
>>>>     balancing to only local backends (excluded east-west traffic)
>>>>
>>>> 2) If load balancer is running on a router with dgp, the router will no
>>>>     longer be centralized on gateway - this means that access to physical
>>>> network will also be available from hosts where the distributed balancer
>>>> backends are located.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Configuration requirement for distributed load balancers:
>>>>      1) ip_port_mapping must be specified
>>>>      2) Balancing in underlay fabric between hosts with backends
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>> Load Balancer: lb1 with VIP 1.1.1.1 and distributed option enabled.
>>>> Fabric is configured with a static ECMP route for 10.255.0.1/32:
>>>>      nexthop via ip_host1 weight 1 (hosts backend1)
>>>>      nexthop via ip_host2 weight 1 (hosts backend2)
>>>>      nexthop via ip_host3 weight 2 (hosts backend3 and backend4)
>>>>
>>>> As part of testing, following estimates of distribution of requests to
>>>> balancers were obtained:
>>>> for i in $(seq 5000); do curlhttp://10.255.0.1:80 2>/dev/null ; echo ;
>>>> done | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c
>>>>     1265 “backend 4",
>>>>     1260 “backend 3",
>>>>     1224 “backend 2",
>>>>     1251 “backend 1",
>>>> Thus, requests using ecmp balancing are distributed between backends
>>>> approximately evenly.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Vladislav Odintsov<[email protected]>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Rukomoinikova<[email protected]>
>>>> --
>>>> v6 --> v7: fixed Ales comments
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>> Hi Alexandra,
>>>
>>> thank you for v7. I have some small nits down below.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> [...]
>>> I took care of the nits and merged this into main.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ales
>> Hi Alexandra, Ales,
>>
>> I didn't check in too much depth but it seems that this patch is causing
>> the following multinode test to fail:
>>
>> 14: ovn multinode load-balancer with multiple DGPs and multiple chassis
>> - ECMP environment FAILED (ovs-macros.at:258)
>>
>> It seems all runs since this patch have been red:
>> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/actions/workflows/ovn-fake-multinode-tests.yml
>>
>> I did a quick test with this patch reverted and the test passed 1st try
>> in my fork:
>>
>> https://github.com/dceara/ovn/actions/runs/21906624033/attempts/1
>>
>> While I'm doing some more runs, would you have time by any chance to
>> look into it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dumitru
>>
> Hi! Oh, sorry for one more problem..... I didn't run all the multinode 
> tests before sending it, only mine, my fail. Yes, I'll take a look and 
> fix everything ASAP
>
> -- 
> regards,
> Alexandra.

Hi! Sorry this test is still red. I honestly haven't figured out what 
the problem is yet, it's a strange and non-obvious issue, at least for 
me. I hope I'll figure it out by Monday and send a patch. I'm just a 
little worried about red tests on GitHub, I hope it's not that critical.

-- 
regards,
Alexandra.

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