[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] Detailed packet drop statistics per dpdk and vhostuser ports

Sriram Vatala sriram.v at altencalsoftlabs.com
Thu Jul 18 05:49:34 UTC 2019


Hi Ben,

Thanks for reviewing the patch. As per your suggestion, I will use use
net_dev_custom_stats to fetch the new statistics counters and document them
in vswitchd/vswitchd.xml.

Thanks,
Sriram.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> 
Sent: 17 July 2019 01:21
To: Sriram Vatala <sriram.v at altencalsoftlabs.com>
Cc: ovs-dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] Detailed packet drop statistics per dpdk
and vhostuser ports

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 07:02:29PM +0530, Sriram Vatala via dev wrote:
> OVS may be unable to transmit packets for multiple reasons and today 
> there is a single counter to track packets dropped due to any of those 
> reasons. The most common reason is that a VM is unable to read packets 
> fast enough causing the vhostuser port transmit queue on the OVS side 
> to become full. This manifests as a problem with VNFs not receiving 
> all packets. Having a separate drop counter to track packets dropped 
> because the transmit queue is full will clearly indicate that the 
> problem is on the VM side and not in OVS. Similarly maintaining 
> separate counters for all possible drops helps in indicating sensible 
> cause for packet drops.
> 
> This patch adds counters to track packets dropped due to all possible 
> reasons and these counters are displayed along with other stats in 
> "ovs-vsctl get interface <iface> statistics"
> command. The detailed stats will be available for both dpdk and 
> vhostuser ports.

Did you consider using netdev_get_custom_stats() for these counters?  I do
not know whether they are likely to be implemented by other network devices,
and custom stats are an appropriate way to implement specialized statistics.

> Following are the details of the new counters :
> 
> tx_failed_drops : Sometimes DPDK physical/vHost port transmit API 
> fails to send all/some packets. These untransmited packets are 
> dropped.The most likely reason for this to happen is because of 
> transmit queue overrun. Besides transmit queue overrun, there are 
> other unlikely reasons such as invalid queue id etc.
> 
> tx_mtu_exceeded_drops : These are the packets dropped due to MTU 
> mismatch (i.e Pkt len > Max Dev MTU).
> 
> tx_qos_drops/rx_qos_drops : These are the packets dropped due to 
> transmission/reception rate exceeding the configured Egress/Ingress 
> policer rate on the interface.

It would make sense to include the above descriptions in
vswitchd/vswitch.xml alongside the other statistics under the "Statistics"
group for the Interface table.

Thanks for working to make OVS better!


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