When ovs is running with large topology (e.g. large number of interfaces), the stats and status update to ovsdb become huge and normally require multiple run of ovsdb jsonrpc message processing loop to consume. Also, this could cause jsonrpc messages backlogged in ovs.
This commit adds a warning message to warn the excessive backlog for jsonrpc. Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> --- lib/jsonrpc.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/jsonrpc.c b/lib/jsonrpc.c index 0841ad8..c0f80bc 100644 --- a/lib/jsonrpc.c +++ b/lib/jsonrpc.c @@ -259,6 +259,12 @@ jsonrpc_send(struct jsonrpc *rpc, struct jsonrpc_msg *msg) list_push_back(&rpc->output, &buf->list_node); rpc->backlog += length; + if (list_size(&rpc->output) >= 50) { + VLOG_WARN("excessive sending backlog, jsonrpc: %s, num of msgs: " + "%"PRIuSIZE", backlog: %"PRIuSIZE".", rpc->name, + list_size(&rpc->output), rpc->backlog); + } + if (rpc->backlog == length) { jsonrpc_run(rpc); } -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev