On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:08:32AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:44:30PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > I believe I have found a regression that affects the behaviour of the
> > datapath. A quick bisection points to the following patch:
> > 
> >     acf60855126bcfa79ea22d7846af5f2efe26cd30
> >     ofproto-dpif: Use a single underlying datapath across multiple bridges.
> > 
> > 
> > For my test I run Open vSwtich inside a kvm VM. Inside the VM
> > there are two ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1 although only
> > eth1 is used in this test. The interfaces are emulated and
> > the other end of eth1 is tap1 in the host.
> > 
> > eth1 has been added to an Open vSwtich bridge in the VM.
> > The output of ovs-vsctl show is as follows:
> > 
> > cff268ec-4e3d-41fa-8127-efa2bb851ae7
> >     Bridge "br0"
> >         Port "eth1"
> >             Interface "eth1"
> >         Port "br0"
> >             Interface "br0"
> >                 type: internal
> >     ovs_version: "1.9.90"
> > 
> > When I try to from the host to the VM I obvserve that the VM
> > does not respond to ARP requests.
> > 
> > COnversely, when I try to ping from the VM to the host it appears
> > that the VM ignores ARP responses.
> 
> I think that Justin was debugging some userspace datapath[*] problems
> late last week.  I remember discussing fixes with him.  It looks like he
> didn't send out the fix before he left on vacation, which means that
> they weren't quite ready yet.  I imagine he'll finish it up and send it
> up next Monday when he gets back.
> 
> [*] This is userspace datapath-specific, right?  The only place you
>     mentioned the userspace datapath was in the Subject.

Sorry for not being clearer. Yes, I have only observed this problem
using the user-space datapath. The Linux kernel datapath seems fine.

> In the meantime, I apologize for the inconvenience.  The "single
> datapath" model still needs some fine-tuning, but it's necessary to make
> the new tunneling model work properly.

No problem, in the mean time I'll just use
acf60855126bcfa79ea22d7846af5f2efe26cd30^
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