[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn] ovn-controller: Consider non-virtual ports first when updating bindings.

Mark Michelson mmichels at redhat.com
Fri Nov 22 22:21:33 UTC 2019


Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels at redhat.com>

On 11/22/19 9:22 AM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> There's no guarantee SBREC_PORT_BINDING_TABLE_FOR_EACH will first
> return the non-virtual ports and then virtual ports. In the case when a
> virtual port is processed before its virtual_parent,
> consider_local_datapath might not release it in the current
> ovn-controller iteration even though the virtual_parent gets released.
> 
> Right now this doesn't trigger any functionality issue because releasing
> the virtual_parent triggers a change in the SB DB which will wake up
> ovn-controller and trigger a new computation which will also update the
> virtual port.
> 
> However, this is suboptimal, and we can notice that often ovn-controller
> gets the SB update notification before the "transaction successful"
> notification. In such cases the incremental engine doesn't run
> (ovnsb_idl_txn == NULL) and a full recompute is scheduled for the next
> run. By batching the two SB updates in a single transaction we
> lower the risk of this situation happening.
> 
> CC: Numan Siddique <numans at ovn.org>
> Fixes: 054f4c85c413 ("Add a new logical switch port type - 'virtual'")
> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara at redhat.com>
> ---
>   controller/binding.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/controller/binding.c b/controller/binding.c
> index aad9d39..4c107c1 100644
> --- a/controller/binding.c
> +++ b/controller/binding.c
> @@ -472,7 +472,12 @@ is_our_chassis(const struct sbrec_chassis *chassis_rec,
>       return our_chassis;
>   }
>   
> -static void
> +/* Updates 'binding_rec' and if the port binding is local also updates the
> + * local datapaths and ports.
> + * Updates and returns the array of local virtual ports that will require
> + * additional processing.
> + */
> +static const struct sbrec_port_binding **
>   consider_local_datapath(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovnsb_idl_txn,
>                           struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovs_idl_txn,
>                           struct ovsdb_idl_index *sbrec_datapath_binding_by_key,
> @@ -485,7 +490,9 @@ consider_local_datapath(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovnsb_idl_txn,
>                           struct hmap *local_datapaths,
>                           struct shash *lport_to_iface,
>                           struct sset *local_lports,
> -                        struct sset *local_lport_ids)
> +                        struct sset *local_lport_ids,
> +                        const struct sbrec_port_binding **vpbs,
> +                        size_t *n_vpbs, size_t *n_allocated_vpbs)
>   {
>       const struct ovsrec_interface *iface_rec
>           = shash_find_data(lport_to_iface, binding_rec->logical_port);
> @@ -587,22 +594,11 @@ consider_local_datapath(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovnsb_idl_txn,
>               }
>           } else if (binding_rec->chassis == chassis_rec) {
>               if (!strcmp(binding_rec->type, "virtual")) {
> -                /* pinctrl module takes care of binding the ports
> -                 * of type 'virtual'.
> -                 * Release such ports if their virtual parents are no
> -                 * longer claimed by this chassis. */
> -                const struct sbrec_port_binding *parent
> -                    = lport_lookup_by_name(sbrec_port_binding_by_name,
> -                                        binding_rec->virtual_parent);
> -                if (!parent || parent->chassis != chassis_rec) {
> -                    VLOG_INFO("Releasing lport %s from this chassis.",
> -                            binding_rec->logical_port);
> -                    if (binding_rec->encap) {
> -                        sbrec_port_binding_set_encap(binding_rec, NULL);
> -                    }
> -                    sbrec_port_binding_set_chassis(binding_rec, NULL);
> -                    sbrec_port_binding_set_virtual_parent(binding_rec, NULL);
> +                if (*n_vpbs == *n_allocated_vpbs) {
> +                    vpbs = x2nrealloc(vpbs, n_allocated_vpbs, sizeof *vpbs);
>                   }
> +                vpbs[(*n_vpbs)] = binding_rec;
> +                (*n_vpbs)++;
>               } else {
>                   VLOG_INFO("Releasing lport %s from this chassis.",
>                             binding_rec->logical_port);
> @@ -621,6 +617,30 @@ consider_local_datapath(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovnsb_idl_txn,
>                            vif_chassis);
>           }
>       }
> +    return vpbs;
> +}
> +
> +static void
> +consider_local_virtual_port(struct ovsdb_idl_index *sbrec_port_binding_by_name,
> +                            const struct sbrec_chassis *chassis_rec,
> +                            const struct sbrec_port_binding *binding_rec)
> +{
> +    /* pinctrl module takes care of binding the ports of type 'virtual'.
> +     * Release such ports if their virtual parents are no longer claimed by
> +     * this chassis.
> +     */
> +    const struct sbrec_port_binding *parent =
> +        lport_lookup_by_name(sbrec_port_binding_by_name,
> +                             binding_rec->virtual_parent);
> +    if (!parent || parent->chassis != chassis_rec) {
> +        VLOG_INFO("Releasing lport %s from this chassis.",
> +                  binding_rec->logical_port);
> +        if (binding_rec->encap) {
> +            sbrec_port_binding_set_encap(binding_rec, NULL);
> +        }
> +        sbrec_port_binding_set_chassis(binding_rec, NULL);
> +        sbrec_port_binding_set_virtual_parent(binding_rec, NULL);
> +    }
>   }
>   
>   static void
> @@ -718,20 +738,41 @@ binding_run(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovnsb_idl_txn,
>                               &egress_ifaces);
>       }
>   
> +    /* Array to store pointers to local virtual ports. It is populated by
> +     * consider_local_datapath.
> +     */
> +    const struct sbrec_port_binding **vpbs = NULL;
> +    size_t n_vpbs = 0;
> +    size_t n_allocated_vpbs = 0;
> +
>       /* Run through each binding record to see if it is resident on this
>        * chassis and update the binding accordingly.  This includes both
> -     * directly connected logical ports and children of those ports. */
> +     * directly connected logical ports and children of those ports.
> +     * Virtual ports are just added to vpbs array and will be processed
> +     * later. This is special case for virtual ports is needed in order to
> +     * make sure we update the virtual_parent port bindings first.
> +     */
>       SBREC_PORT_BINDING_TABLE_FOR_EACH (binding_rec, port_binding_table) {
> -        consider_local_datapath(ovnsb_idl_txn, ovs_idl_txn,
> -                                sbrec_datapath_binding_by_key,
> -                                sbrec_port_binding_by_datapath,
> -                                sbrec_port_binding_by_name,
> -                                active_tunnels, chassis_rec, binding_rec,
> -                                sset_is_empty(&egress_ifaces) ? NULL :
> -                                &qos_map, local_datapaths, &lport_to_iface,
> -                                local_lports, local_lport_ids);
> -
> -    }
> +        vpbs =
> +            consider_local_datapath(ovnsb_idl_txn, ovs_idl_txn,
> +                                    sbrec_datapath_binding_by_key,
> +                                    sbrec_port_binding_by_datapath,
> +                                    sbrec_port_binding_by_name,
> +                                    active_tunnels, chassis_rec, binding_rec,
> +                                    sset_is_empty(&egress_ifaces) ? NULL :
> +                                    &qos_map, local_datapaths, &lport_to_iface,
> +                                    local_lports, local_lport_ids,
> +                                    vpbs, &n_vpbs, &n_allocated_vpbs);
> +    }
> +
> +    /* Now also update the virtual ports in case their parent ports were
> +     * updated above.
> +     */
> +    for (size_t i = 0; i < n_vpbs; i++) {
> +        consider_local_virtual_port(sbrec_port_binding_by_name, chassis_rec,
> +                                    vpbs[i]);
> +    }
> +    free(vpbs);
>   
>       add_ovs_bridge_mappings(ovs_table, bridge_table, &bridge_mappings);
>   
> 



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