Hi, Ben.  I know we've had a lot of mailing list problems so you may have
missed some of the follow-up to this patch.  It's up to v5.  I believe
another revision is coming to address saving zone IDs for container-in-vm
and localnet ports.

http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-February/066179.html

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:12:50PM +0000, Suryanarayan Ramamurthy wrote:
> > Currently, conntrack zone-id is assigned to lport by ovn-controller,
> > but the ovn-controller does not remember what was earlier assigned
> > to the same lport (possibly in an earlier run across restart).
> >
> > So, after ovn-controller restart, the zone-ids may get set
> > inconsistently on lports, resulting in possible hits to
> > already established connections.
> >
> > Fix is to remember the zone-id as an external-id of the interface record
> > in the local ovs-db, and recover zone-ids assigned earlier to lports
> > from that record.
> >
> > This patch fixes:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-ovn/+bug/1538696
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ramu Ramamurthy <ramu.ramamur...@us.ibm.com>
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> From this part of the patch, it looks like external-ids:zone-id is
> accepted even if there are duplicates, or if the value is not valid.  I
> think that it should reject such cases:
> > +            zone = smap_get(&iface_rec->external_ids, "zone-id");
> > +            if (zone && ovs_scan(zone, "%d", &zone_id)) {
> > +                bitmap_set1(ct_zone_bitmap, zone_id);
> > +                simap_put(ct_zones, iface_id, zone_id);
> > +            }
>
> With that in mind, update_local_zone_ids() should also update
> external-ids:zone-id if it needs to change, instead of leaving it the
> same.
>
> This commit removes the XXX comment below.  Does it fix the problem that
> comment points out?
>
> > @@ -112,10 +171,8 @@ update_ct_zones(struct sset *lports, struct simap
> *ct_zones,
> >          bitmap_set1(ct_zone_bitmap, zone);
> >          simap_put(ct_zones, iface_id, zone);
> >
> > -        /* xxx We should erase any old entries for this
> > -         * xxx zone, but we need a generic interface to the conntrack
> > -         * xxx table. */
> >      }
> > +    update_local_zone_ids(br_int, ct_zones, ctx);
> >  }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>



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Russell Bryant
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