[ovs-dev] The “overlay” mode issue while setting up OVS with DPDK

[Guru Shetty]

We had talked about using OVS 2.9, right? Are you using that?

On 25 July 2018 at 08:51, Sandeep Adapala <sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Guru,
>
> I think OVS doesn't like me at all :) every step I am facing a issue.
>
> this time when I tried to create a docker network on OVS (*sudo docker
> network create -d openvswitch --subnet=192.168.22.0/24
> <http://192.168.22.0/24> ovs*) it failed and I got this error in Docker
> log
>
> *ERRO[2717] Handler for POST /v1.27/networks/create returned error: remote: create_network: lswitch-add Fatal error executing ['ovn-nbctl', '--timeout=5', '-vconsole:off', '--db=tcp:192.168.14.33:6642 <http://192.168.14.33:6642>', 'lswitch-add', u'6eccad3be08421bb50e97a620c0ffa80e28e9676e8ad18881aeb1a640d7cdd55', '--', 'set', 'Logical_Switch', u'6eccad3be08421bb50e97a620c0ffa80e28e9676e8ad18881aeb1a640d7cdd55', u'external_ids:subnet=192.168.22.0/24 <http://192.168.22.0/24>', u'external_ids:gateway_ip=192.168.22.1'] *
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Sandeep
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes.
>>
>> On 23 July 2018 at 13:43, Sandeep Adapala <sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So you are saying just do the overlay part in this doc ?
>>> http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/howto/docker/#the-overlay-mode
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> May I suggest that you get OVN working with containers without DPDK
>>>> first? Once you are confident about what needs to be done for OVN, you can
>>>> concentrate more on DPDK.
>>>>
>>>> On 23 July 2018 at 13:15, Sandeep Adapala <sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have configured the grub as
>>>>>
>>>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=16 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=2048 iommu=pt intel_iommu=on"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't isolate any cores so if I want to use core 2 or 3 what will be the dpdk-lcore-mask and pod-cpu-mask?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Sandeep Adapala <
>>>>> sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have tried that already Guru but I got the same error always. Let
>>>>>> me ask one more question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do I need to configure here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sudo ovs-vsctl -no-wait set Open_vSwitch .
>>>>>> other_config:dpdk-lcore-mask=0xfffffbffffe.
>>>>>> sudo ovs-vsctl -no-wait set Open_vSwitch .
>>>>>> other_config:dpdk-socket-mem="1024,1024"
>>>>>> sudo ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:pmd-cpu-mask=0x800002
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am very new to ovs so I am still learning things. So can you
>>>>>> explain me what I should configure in lcore-mask and cpu-mask
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a 28 core with 10G intel NIC's
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Sandeep
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Use the same IP address for both CENTRAL_IP and LOCAL_IP. And
>>>>>>> this should be the IP of your host.
>>>>>>> 2. ENCAP_TYPE="geneve".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 23 July 2018 at 12:41, Sandeep Adapala <
>>>>>>> sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am trying to use this doc to setup the containers using OVS-DPDK (
>>>>>>>> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-docker-conta
>>>>>>>> iners-with-open-vswitch-and-dpdk-on-ubuntu-1710)
>>>>>>>> but when I try to configure the ovs on overlay mode I am little
>>>>>>>> confused on
>>>>>>>> this configuration. I don't have a remote server I want everything
>>>>>>>> to be
>>>>>>>> installed in same server. so can you please help me out what should
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> remove and replace in the below config
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . \
>>>>>>>>     external_ids:ovn-remote="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6642" \
>>>>>>>>     external_ids:ovn-nb="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6641" \
>>>>>>>>     external_ids:ovn-encap-ip=$LOCAL_IP \
>>>>>>>>     external_ids:ovn-encap-type="$ENCAP_TYPE"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> like what is CENTRAL_IP? ENCAP_TYPE and all?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Sandeep
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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