[ovs-dev] Consideration of ce179f11 for 2.5 branch?

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Just wanted to give this another ping to see what opinions are on that.

Kind Regards,
Christian

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've recently run a lot into extremely huge logfiles.
> I found it related to messages like:
> 2016-04-25T06:25:29.464Z|00003|dpif_netdev(pmd18)|INFO|Core 9 processing
> port 'vhost-user-1'
>
> With many ports and queues set up it really gets bad with almost a
> Gigabyte for 512 ports and even up to stalling the OVS adding ports due to
> massive log writes.
>
> The good thing - I found it already fixed upstream in the form of:
>
> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/ce179f1163f947fe8dc5afa35a2cdd0756bb53a0
>
> I don't know if the new command and extra message part with queue-id is
> "too much" for the 2.5 branch. But I'd personally totally like it applied
> to that.
> If not the full patch then maybe at least just dropping the INFO to DBG of
> the existing messages?
>
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd
>