[ovs-discuss] ovs functionality on ARMv8 Linux

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 09:24:20AM +0000, Yehuda Yitschak wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----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
> 

OK. That's why ovs-vsctl hangs. ovs-vswitchd should be running. If you can get
it to run, your problem should go away.

Cascardo.

> 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.