On 23 Sep 2022, at 18:29, Peng He wrote:

> The userspace datapath mananges all the magaflows by a cmap. The cmap
> data structrue will grow/shrink during the datapath processing and it
> will re-position megaflows. This might result in two revalidator threads
> might process a same megaflow during one dump stage.
>
> Consider a situation that, revalidator 1 processes a megaflow A, and
> decides to delete it from the datapath, at the mean time, this megaflow
> A is also queued in the process batch of revalidator 2. Normally it's ok
> for revalidators to process the same megaflow multiple times, as the
> dump_seq shows it's already dumped and the stats will not be contributed
> twice.
>
> Assume that right after A is deleted, a PMD thread generates again
> a new megaflow B which has the same match and action of A. The ukey
> of megaflow B will replace the one of megaflow A. Now the ukey B is
> new to the revalidator system and its dump seq is 0.
>
> Now since the dump seq of ukey B is 0, when processing megaflow A,
> the revalidator 2 will not identify this megaflow A has already been
> dumped by revalidator 1 and will contribute the old megaflow A's stats
> again, this results in an inconsistent stats between ukeys and megaflows.
>
> To fix this, the newly generated the ukey B should take the dump_seq
> of the replaced ukey A to avoid a same megaflow being revalidated
> twice in one dump stage.
>
> We observe in the production environment, the OpenFlow rules' stats
> sometimes are amplified compared to the actual value. I believe this
> is also the reason that why somtimes there is mismatch between the
> ukey and megaflow in stats value. The Eelco's patch
> [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 09/10] revalidator: Fix datapath statistics update
> tried to fix it in the past.

This sounds plausible, are your statistics extremely elevated?
Mine are in the likes of n_bytes=18446744073705804134 where it should be around 
100.

I’ll try to get my old setup up and run it continuously over the weekend and 
see if it’s replicated again.

> Signed-off-by: Peng He <[email protected]>
> ---
>  ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c
> index e8bbcfeaf..89fad1bdf 100644
> --- a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c
> +++ b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c
> @@ -1877,6 +1877,7 @@ try_ukey_replace(struct umap *umap, struct udpif_key 
> *old_ukey,
>              ovs_mutex_lock(&new_ukey->mutex);
>              cmap_replace(&umap->cmap, &old_ukey->cmap_node,
>                           &new_ukey->cmap_node, new_ukey->hash);
> +            new_ukey->dump_seq = old_ukey->dump_seq;
>              ovsrcu_postpone(ukey_delete__, old_ukey);
>              transition_ukey(old_ukey, UKEY_DELETED);
>              transition_ukey(new_ukey, UKEY_VISIBLE);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>
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