On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:30:28PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:25:01AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> > > Currently we connect to xapi in case there are multiple
> > > external_ids:xs-network-uuids to get the single bridge id everytime
> > > we have a change in the database for all the interested columns in
> > > ovs-xapi-sync. The xs-network-uuids value can also change whenever
> > > new VLANs are added or deleted, which is a common use case. The
> > > disadvantage with this approach is that we query XAPI more often
> > > and set the bridge-id as "" if we don't get a valid response for
> > > our query. This can take down the logical connectivity for all the
> > > VMs on that xenserver.
> > >
> > > Instead of looking at the PIF records for all the xs-network-uuids,
> > > we can instead just look at the xapi record which has the same bridge
> > > name as the OVS bridge name and then cache its uuid. This value will
> > > hold true till the OVS bridge is recreated in which case we will re-read
> > > the value.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>
> >
> > I think that the tolerance for XAPI failures is incomplete, because we
> > call update_fail_mode(), update_in_band_mgmt(), and get_bridge_id()
> > only once for a bridge, even if XAPI fails to respond on the first
> > attempt.
> >
> Yes. We can make some improvements. Do you mind, if I come up with a
> separate patch
> for this, since the current one talks about caching non nicira-bridge-id.
> (get_bridge_id() gets
> the nicira-bridge-id)
OK.
> > I am not sure why the set_external_id() call splits bridge_id on ';'.
> > Can bridge_id contain ';' at this point?
> >
> The case wherein bridge-id can have ";" is if nicira-bridge-id has a ";".
> If you feel, that is not a valid use case, I can get rid of it.
I guess that it is existing code, so it is better not to change it,
especially in an unrelated patch.
> > I am not sure why bridge_id and bridge_id_cache are different
> > variables. When do they have different values?
> >
> In case get_single_bridge_id() gets us a "", we don't want to cache it.
> Hence 2 separate variables.
I see. "" != None even though Python treats both as false.
This code is really confusing. Every time I look at it, I get more
confused.
I am probably doing something stupid here again, but how about this
version:
new_bridges = {}
for row in idl.tables["Bridge"].rows.itervalues():
bridge_id = bridges.get(row.name)
if bridge_id is None:
# Configure the new bridge.
update_fail_mode(row)
update_in_band_mgmt(row)
# Get the correct bridge_id, if we can.
bridge_id = get_bridge_id(row.name)
if bridge_id is None:
xs_network_uuids = row.external_ids.get("xs-network-uuids")
if xs_network_uuids:
bridge_ids = xs_network_uuids.split(";")
if len(bridge_ids) == 1:
bridge_id = bridge_ids[0]
else:
bridge_id = get_single_bridge_id(bridge_ids,
row.name)
if bridge_id is not None:
set_external_id(row, "bridge-id", bridge_id.split(";")[0])
new_bridges[row.name] = bridge_id
bridges = new_bridges
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