[ovs-discuss] ovs functionality on ARMv8 Linux

[Yehuda Yitschak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [mailto:cascardo at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 19:57
> To: Yehuda Yitschak
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs functionality on ARMv8 Linux
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:35:11AM +0000, Yehuda Yitschak wrote:
> > Hello everyone
> >
> >
> > i am trying to create a switch using OVS 2.3.1 on ARMv8 linux-4.1
> > kernel
> >
> >
> > i am using a ubuntu-15.04 dsitribution.
> >
> > when i run "ovs-vsctl add-br bridge" the command never returns
> >
> >
> > if i kill OVS and run ovs-vsctl show i see the bridge but it doesn't appear
> when i run "ifconfig -a".
> >
> >
> > Am i missing a feature in the kernel ?
> >
> >
> > Appreciate any help
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Yehuda
> 
> Which processes are running? Can you get full command line for ovsdb-
> server and ovs-vswitchd?

Hi Cascarado.

I have 2 instances of ovsdb-server. Here is the output of ps -aux  | grep ovs

root      1739  0.0  0.0   4992  1432 ?        S<s  20:55   0:00 ovsdb-server: monitoring pid 1740 (healthy)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
root      1740  0.0  0.0   5252  3644 ?        S<   20:55   0:00 ovsdb-server /etc/openvswitch/conf.db -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --remote=punix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key --certificate=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,ca_cert --no-chdir --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.pid --detach --monitor


 What about the log output? Can you send lines
> after the event from /var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log and
> /var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log?

Here is ovsdb-server log file. I couldn't find ovs-vswitchd.log looks like this deamon is not running from some reason

2015-02-16T21:29:52.776Z|00006|vlog|INFO|opened log file /var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log
2015-02-16T22:57:14.213Z|00007|fatal_signal|WARN|terminating with signal 15 (Terminated)
2015-02-16T20:55:08.593Z|00001|vlog|INFO|opened log file /var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log
2015-02-16T20:55:08.604Z|00002|ovsdb_server|INFO|ovsdb-server (Open vSwitch) 2.3.1
2015-02-16T20:55:18.614Z|00003|memory|INFO|3596 kB peak resident set size after 10.0 seconds
2015-02-16T20:55:18.614Z|00004|memory|INFO|cells:85
2015-02-16T22:01:41.749Z|00005|fatal_signal|WARN|terminating with signal 15 (Terminated)
2015-02-16T22:01:41.749Z|00002|daemon_unix(monitor)|INFO|pid 1864 died, killed (Terminated), exiting
2015-02-16T20:55:08.315Z|00001|vlog|INFO|opened log file /var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log
2015-02-16T20:55:08.347Z|00002|ovsdb_server|INFO|ovsdb-server (Open vSwitch) 2.3.1
2015-02-16T20:55:18.359Z|00003|memory|INFO|3644 kB peak resident set size after 10.0 seconds
2015-02-16T20:55:18.359Z|00004|memory|INFO|cells:14

Thanks

Yehuda 

> 
> And do you have openvswitch module loaded?
> 
> Cascardo.