[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovsdb: provide raft and command interfaces with priority

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Jun 10 22:01:44 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 10:27:08AM +0100, anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com wrote:
> From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>
> 
> Set a soft time limit of "raft election timer"/2 on ovsdb
> processing.
> 
> This improves behaviour in large heavily loaded clusters.
> While it cannot fully eliminate spurious raft elections
> under heavy load, it significantly decreases their number.
> 
> TODO: randomize session processing order to ensure individual
> sessions towards the end of the remotes list are not starved
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov at cambridgegreys.com>

Personally I'd consider a random or round-robin processing order to be
pretty critical here.

A better approach (which would be a lot more work) would be for the Raft
code to use a separate thread or process.


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