Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]> 于2022年9月30日周五 23:01写道:

>
>
> 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.
>
> It looks more like an overflow.
I just get the report from another team, I need to ask them, we will have a
7 days off due to the national day.
so it will take time to get the value. :(

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


> > 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > dev mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
>
>

-- 
hepeng
_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to