[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2.5] ifnotifier: do not wake up when there is no db connection

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

When bridge uses the interface notifier, it wakes up until a reconfiguration
takes place. However, if there is no connection or a lock contention to the
database, the check for reconfiguration will not take place.

This uses a seq and only seq_wait when checking for the interfaces change.

This is easily reproduced by starting ovs-vswitchd without starting
ovsdb-server, and then creating a new system interface, like using
'ip link add type veth'. ovs-vswitchd will then consume 100% CPU.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at redhat.com>
---

Backport to OVS 2.5.

---
 vswitchd/bridge.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vswitchd/bridge.c b/vswitchd/bridge.c
index 4ff77c1..591ecd2 100644
--- a/vswitchd/bridge.c
+++ b/vswitchd/bridge.c
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ static long long int aa_refresh_timer = LLONG_MIN;
  * will be reconfigured.
  */
 static struct if_notifier *ifnotifier;
-static bool ifaces_changed = false;
+static struct seq *ifaces_changed;
+static uint64_t last_ifaces_changed;
 
 static void add_del_bridges(const struct ovsrec_open_vswitch *);
 static void bridge_run__(void);
@@ -386,7 +387,21 @@ bridge_init_ofproto(const struct ovsrec_open_vswitch *cfg)
 static void
 if_change_cb(void *aux OVS_UNUSED)
 {
-    ifaces_changed = true;
+    seq_change(ifaces_changed);
+}
+
+static bool
+if_notifier_changed(struct if_notifier *notifier OVS_UNUSED)
+{
+    uint64_t new_seq;
+    bool changed = false;
+    new_seq = seq_read(ifaces_changed);
+    if (new_seq != last_ifaces_changed) {
+        changed = true;
+        last_ifaces_changed = new_seq;
+    }
+    seq_wait(ifaces_changed, last_ifaces_changed);
+    return changed;
 }
 
 /* Public functions. */
@@ -491,6 +506,8 @@ bridge_init(const char *remote)
     stp_init();
     lldp_init();
     rstp_init();
+    ifaces_changed = seq_create();
+    last_ifaces_changed = seq_read(ifaces_changed);
     ifnotifier = if_notifier_create(if_change_cb, NULL);
 }
 
@@ -500,6 +517,7 @@ bridge_exit(void)
     struct bridge *br, *next_br;
 
     if_notifier_destroy(ifnotifier);
+    seq_destroy(ifaces_changed);
     HMAP_FOR_EACH_SAFE (br, next_br, node, &all_bridges) {
         bridge_destroy(br, false);
     }
@@ -2969,12 +2987,10 @@ bridge_run(void)
         }
     }
 
-    if (ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl) != idl_seqno || vlan_splinters_changed
-        || ifaces_changed) {
+    if (ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl) != idl_seqno || vlan_splinters_changed ||
+        if_notifier_changed(ifnotifier)) {
         struct ovsdb_idl_txn *txn;
 
-        ifaces_changed = false;
-
         idl_seqno = ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl);
         txn = ovsdb_idl_txn_create(idl);
         bridge_reconfigure(cfg ? cfg : &null_cfg);
@@ -3032,9 +3048,6 @@ bridge_wait(void)
     }
 
     if_notifier_wait();
-    if (ifaces_changed) {
-        poll_immediate_wake();
-    }
 
     sset_init(&types);
     ofproto_enumerate_types(&types);
-- 
2.7.4