[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/5] mac-learning: Add additional counters for troubleshooting aid

Jakub Sitnicki jkbs at redhat.com
Tue Jun 26 07:38:05 UTC 2018


On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:57:08 +0200
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com> wrote:

> This series add some additional counters that make FDB debugging easier.
> The following counters now exists on a per mac_learning instance, and
> the last two have also been added as coverage counters.
> 
> learned: Total number of learned MAC entries
> expired: Total number of expired MAC entries
> evicted: Total number of evicted MAC entries, i.e. entries moved
>          out due to the table being full.
> moved  : Total number of port moved MAC entries, i.e. entries
>          where the MAC address moved to a different port.
> 
> Take the example where you have an FDB table size configured which is
> to small.
> 
> The effect of this is a high CPU utilization of the revalidator threads.
> The firs clue is the rev_mac_learning revalidator reason coverage counter.
> 
> Than looking at the mac_learning_learned counter you know a lot of
> learning is going on but no reason why. The new mac_learning_evicted
> counter quickly shows it's related to entries being evicted.
> 
> Currently you have to do this by taking muliple copies of the FDB table
> and compare them.
> 
> Eelco Chaudron (5):
>       mac-learning: Add additional mac-learning coverage counters
>       mac-learning: Add per mac learning instance counters
>       utilities: Update gdb script to include mac_learning counters
>       ofproto: Add CLI commands to show and clear mac_learning statistics
>       vswitchd: Document new fdb statistics commands
> 
> 
>  lib/mac-learning.c         |   23 +++++++++++++++
>  lib/mac-learning.h         |    7 +++++
>  ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c     |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  utilities/gdb/ovs_gdb.py   |    4 +++
>  vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in |    5 +++
>  5 files changed, 106 insertions(+)

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Acked-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs at redhat.com>


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