Hi,

Since I have 3 OVN DB nodes, should I add 3 rows in connection table
for the inactivity_probe? Or put 3 addresses into one row?

"set-connection" set one row only, and there is no "add-connection".
How should I add 3 rows into the table connection?


Thanks!

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Numan Siddique <num...@ovn.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:36 AM
> To: Tony Liu <tonyliu0...@hotmail.com>
> Cc: ovs-discuss <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>; ovs-dev <ovs-
> d...@openvswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] [OVN] no response to inactivity probe
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:12 AM Tony Liu <tonyliu0...@hotmail.com
> <mailto:tonyliu0...@hotmail.com> > wrote:
> 
> 
>       In my deployment, on each Neutron server, there are 13 Neutron
> server processes.
>       I see 12 of them (monitor, maintenance, RPC, API) connect to both
> ovn-nb-db
>       and ovn-sb-db. With 3 Neutron server nodes, that's 36 OVSDB clients.
>       Is so many clients OK?
> 
>       Any suggestions how to figure out which side doesn't respond the
> probe,
>       if it's bi-directional? I don't see any activities from logging,
> other than
>       connect/drop and reconnect...
> 
>       BTW, please let me know if this is not the right place to discuss
> Neutron OVN
>       ML2 driver.
> 
> 
>       Thanks!
> 
>       Tony
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: dev <ovs-dev-boun...@openvswitch.org <mailto:ovs-dev-
> boun...@openvswitch.org> > On Behalf Of Tony Liu
>       > Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 7:45 PM
>       > To: ovs-discuss <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org <mailto:ovs-
> disc...@openvswitch.org> >; ovs-dev <ovs-
>       > d...@openvswitch.org <mailto:d...@openvswitch.org> >
>       > Subject: [ovs-dev] [OVN] no response to inactivity probe
>       >
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       > Neutron OVN ML2 driver was disconnected by ovn-nb-db. There are
> many
>       > error messages from ovn-nb-db leader.
>       > ========
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:39.751Z|03138|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.81:58620
> <http://10.6.20.81:58620> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:42.484Z|03139|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.81:58300
> <http://10.6.20.81:58300> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:49.858Z|03140|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.81:59582
> <http://10.6.20.81:59582> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:53.057Z|03141|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.83:42626
> <http://10.6.20.83:42626> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:53.058Z|03142|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.82:45412
> <http://10.6.20.82:45412> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:54.067Z|03143|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.81:59416
> <http://10.6.20.81:59416> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
>       > 2020-08-04T02:31:54.809Z|03144|reconnect|ERR|tcp:10.6.20.81:60004
> <http://10.6.20.81:60004> : no
>       > response to inactivity probe after 5 seconds, disconnecting
> ========
>       >
>       > Could anyone share a bit details how this inactivity probe works?
> 
> 
> 
> The inactivity probe is sent by both the server and clients
> independently.
> Meaning ovsdb-server will send an inactivity probe every 'x' configured
> seconds to all its connected clients and if it doesn't get a reply from
> the client within some time, it disconnects the connection.
> 
> The inactivity probe from the server side can be configured. Run "ovn-
> nbctl list connection"
> and you will see inactivity_probe column. You can set this column to
> desired value like - ovn-nbctl set connection . inactivity_probe=30000
> (for 30 seconds)
> 
> The same thing for SB ovsdb-server.
> 
> Similarly each client (ovn-northd, ovn-controller, neutron server) sends
> inactivity probe every 'y' seconds and if the client doesn't get any
> reply from ovsdb-server it will disconnect the connection and reconnect
> again.
> 
> For ovn-northd you can configured this as - ovn-nbctl set NB_Global .
> options:northd_probe_interval=30000
> 
> For ovn-controllers - ovs-vsctl set open . external_ids:ovn-remote-
> probe-interval=30000
> 
> There is also a probe interval for openflow connection from ovn-
> controller to ovs-vswitchd which you can configure as ovs-vsctl set
> open . external_ids:ovn-openflow-probe-interval=30 (this is in seconds)
> 
> 
> Regarding the neutron server I think it is set to 60 seconds. Please see
> this -
> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/conf/plugins/ml
> 2/drivers/ovn/ovn_conf.py#L80
> 
> From the logs you shared, it looks like ovsdb-server is not getting the
> probe reply from neutron server after 5 seconds and hence it is
> disconnecting. Not sure what's happening though.
> 
> You can try increasing the inactivity probe interval on the ovsdb-server
> side with the first command I shared.
> Note: If "ovn-nbctl list connection" returns empty, you need to create a
> connection row like - ovn-nbctl set-connection ptcp:6641:<IP>
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Numan
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       > From OVN ML2 driver log, I see it connected to the leader, then
> the
>       > connection was closed by leader after 5 or 6 seconds. Is this
> probe one-
>       > way or two-ways?
>       > Both sides are not busy, not taking much CPU cycles. Not sure how
> this
>       > could happen. Any thoughts?
>       >
>       >
>       > Thanks!
>       >
>       > Tony
>       >
>       >
>       >
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