[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] Revert "ovsdb-idl: Avoid sending redundant conditional monitoring updates"

Ilya Maximets i.maximets at ovn.org
Fri Mar 27 22:25:35 UTC 2020


On 3/26/20 6:00 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 3/25/20 9:15 PM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>> This reverts commit 5351980b047f4dd40be7a59a1e4b910df21eca0a.
>>
>> If the ovsdb-server reply to "monitor_cond_since" requests has
>> "found" == false then ovsdb_idl_db_parse_monitor_reply() calls
>> ovsdb_idl_db_clear() which iterates through all tables and
>> unconditionally sets table->cond_changed to false.
>>
>> However, if the client had already set a new condition for some of the
>> tables, this new condition request will never be sent to ovsdb-server
>> until the condition is reset to a different value. This is due to the
>> check in ovsdb_idl_db_set_condition().
>>
>> One way to replicate the issue is described in the bugzilla reporting
>> the bug, when ovn-controller is configured to use "ovn-monitor-all":
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808125#c6
>>
>> Commit 5351980b047f tried to optimize sending redundant conditional
>> monitoring updates but the chances that this scenario happens with the
>> latest code is quite low since commit 403a6a0cb003 ("ovsdb-idl: Fast
>> resync from server when connection reset.") changed the behavior of
>> ovsdb_idl_db_parse_monitor_reply() to avoid calling ovsdb_idl_db_clear()
>> in most cases.
>>
>> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
>> Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1808125
>> CC: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>> Fixes: 5351980b047f ("ovsdb-idl: Avoid sending redundant conditional monitoring updates")
>> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara at redhat.com>
> 
> LGTM,
> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>
> 

Thanks Dumitru, Han and Numan.
I went ahead and applied this patch to master.  Backported down to 2.7.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.


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