[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Improved Packet Drop Statistics in OVS.

Federico Iezzi fiezzi at redhat.com
Fri May 25 07:34:53 UTC 2018


Hello everyone,

May I ask to provide some (even brief) documentation about each specific
drop counter?
That would really help understanding why a specific drop is happening.

Thanks,
Federico

On 25 May 2018 at 07:44, Rohith Basavaraja <rohith.basavaraja at ericsson.com>
wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks a lot for sharing the info.
> Ben clarified that it should be ok if this new stuff is used only in the
> DPDK datapath and it’s not used in the kernel datapath.
>
> Thanks
> Rohith
>
>
>
> On 24/05/18, 9:05 PM, "Gregory Rose" <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 5/23/2018 7:19 PM, Rohith Basavaraja wrote:
>     > Hi Ben,
>     >
>     > Only  changes in
>     > datapath/linux/compat/include/linux/openvswitch.h
>     > are related to OvS Kernel module.
>     >
>     > The changes in openvswitch.h are not upstreamed yet.
>     > Can you please let me know the procedure for submitting the
>     > Changes for OvS Kernel Module?.
>     >
>     > In the meanwhile can I get code review feedback for the changes,
> while I
>     > Figure out how to commit changes in datapath/linux/compat/include/
> linux/openvswitch.h.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > Rohith
>
>     You need to submit changes to openvswitch.h to the Linux network mail
> list.
>
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
>
>     After acceptance upstream we can then pull in the change.
>
>     And this might help as well.
>
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.16/process/submitting-patches.html
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     - Greg
>
>     >
>     >
>     > On 24/05/18, 2:03 AM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>     >
>     >      I see that this adds code to the OVS kernel module.  Are these
> changes
>     >      upstream already in Linux?  Usually we use an "upstream first"
>     >      philosophy regarding the kernel module.
>     >
>     >
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