On 2/17/23 09:45, Viacheslav Galaktionov wrote:
> On 2/10/23 16:40, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> On 2/10/23 10:14, Viacheslav Galaktionov wrote:
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Small question, though: what do the n_offload_{packets,bytes} fields
>>> represent in the output of "bridge/dump-flows", if not the offload stats
>>> for traffic associated with a given OpenFlow rule? I understand it might
>>> be implemented using datapath flows under the hood, but that shouldn't
>>> matter for my purposes as long as the numbers mean what I expect them to.
>> Hmm, you're right. I missed that part.
>>
>> Stats from datapath flows are aggregated into stats for OpenFlow rules
>> that contributed into creation of these datapath flows. In this case
>> n_offload_{packets,bytes} are counting stats from offloaded datapath
>> flows separately. So, yes, these might be what you need.
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not normally using this appctl command, so I forgot about this
>> functionality being implemented. :)
>>
>> Dumping datapath flows is typically more useful for troubleshooting,
>> but if you only need statistics, then the 'bridge/dump-flows' should
>> be sufficient.
> Glad to hear this, thank you!
>
> By the way, I've noticed another small discrepancy in how ovs-ofctl and
> ovs-appctl dump bridge flows: they use different field names for table
> IDs: the former uses "table", while the latter uses "table_id". Do you
> think I'd break anything if I patched ovs-appctl to use "table" as well?
It's hard to tell. You never know what people use to parse the output
in the wild. I'd keep it as is.
>>
>> Note though that there are some tricky considerations regarding what is
>> considered 'offloaded' and what is not. For example, with TC, these stats
>> will count packets matching chains which are in_hw. They will not count
>> flows installed in TC software datapath, but not in HW, AFAICT.
>>
>> For DPDK, it will count both fully and partially offloaded flows, even
>> though actions are executed in software for partially offloaded ones.
> Yes, this is an interesting point, thanks. I wonder if it'd be possible
> to somehow differentiate between SW and HW offloads, but I suppose the
There are different kinds of HW offload. Currently you can somewhat
differentiate on datapath flow level, as we provide the dp-layer and
offloaded:[yes,no,partial] for each datapath flow.
However, that is not always enough. Because, even if TC, for example,
reports in_hw flag for a certain chain, it doesn't mean that all the
packets for that chain are actually handled in hardware, it only means
that NIC driver acknowledged the flow. But the actual traffic may or
may not be actually handled by the HW in various different cases.
It's complicated. :)
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> current behaviour suits my goals well enough.
>>
>> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
>>
>>> On 2/10/23 01:15, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 2/7/23 15:25, Viacheslav Galaktionov via discuss wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to figure out if my OvS flows are actually offloaded to TC or
> DPDK.
> To simplify flow management, the test application uses cookies to assign
> unique
> IDs to flows.
>
> As I understand, there are two ways to dump flows from OvS:
>
> 1. Use "ovs-ofctl dump-flows", which doesn't return offload stats.
> 2. Use "ovs-appctl bridge/dump-flows", which doesn't return the cookies.
>
> ovs-ofctl is supposed to work with any OpenFlow switch, and offload stats
> are
> not part of the OpenFlow protocol, so its behaviour is perfectly
> understandable.
Both methods above are dumping OpenFlow rules and OVS doesn't actually
offload OpenFlow rules themselves. OVS creates simpler datapath flows
while passing a packet through OpenFlow tables. This simple datapath
flow it sends to the datapath inclusing possibility of offloading of
that datapath flow.
So, you won't be able to get offload stats from OpenFlow rules, so neither
of the commands above are suitable for you.
You can dump datapath flows instead with 'ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows'.
By using '-m' option you can get additional flags like 'dp_layer'
and 'offloaded:[yes|no|partial]' for each datapath flow.
> However, ovs-appctl is an OvS-specific tool and I don't see any reason
> why it
> would omit this flow-identifying information, especially since it doesn't
> seem
> to provide any alternative. I've done some quick testing and this patch
> appears
> to give me what I need:
>
> diff --git a/ofproto/ofproto.c b/ofproto/ofproto.c
> index 3a527683c..bdf1e7467 100644
> --- a/ofproto/ofproto.c
> +++ b/ofproto/ofproto.c
> @@ -4803,6 +4803,9 @@ flow_stats_ds(struct ofproto *ofproto, struct rule
> *rule, struct ds *results,
> if (rule->table_id != 0) {
> ds_put_format(results, "table_id=%"PRIu8", ", rule->table_id);
>
