On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM Dumitru Ceara via dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> When the test toggles add_route from true to false, the
> OpenFlow routing rules are removed after --wait=hv, but
> stale megaflow entries cached in the OVS datapath from
> the previous successful pings may survive until the
> revalidator timer fires.  The first ping packet can match
> such a stale flow and get forwarded, causing an
> intermittent "1 received" instead of "0 received".
>
> Wait for datapath revalidation after the configuration
> change to avoid the race.
>
> Other system tests that toggle connectivity on and off
> may suffer from the same class of issue, but this one
> happens to fail more often in CI, e.g.:
>
> https://github.com/dceara/ovn/actions/runs/26631517208/job/78481704883#step:11:6606
>
> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Code
> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> ---
> V2:
> - Addressed Ilya's comment:
>   - used revalidator/wait
> ---
>  tests/system-ovn.at | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tests/system-ovn.at b/tests/system-ovn.at
> index 968a22f51e..fbb8967b86 100644
> --- a/tests/system-ovn.at
> +++ b/tests/system-ovn.at
> @@ -14866,6 +14866,8 @@ NS_CHECK_EXEC([vm1], [ping -q -c 3 -i 0.3 -w 2
> 172.18.1.12 | FORMAT_PING], \
>  ])
>
>  check ovn-nbctl --wait=hv set load_balancer lb0 options:add_route=false
> +# Wait for revalidation of stale megaflows which may lag behind.
> +check ovs-appctl revalidator/wait
>  NS_CHECK_EXEC([vm1], [ping -q -c 3 -i 0.3 -w 2 172.18.1.12 |
> FORMAT_PING], \
>  [0], [dnl
>  7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms
> --
> 2.54.0
>
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Looks good to me, thanks.
Acked-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
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