On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:19:08PM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26:18PM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> > > For non-local datapaths, if there are no patch ports attached, it
> > > means the lflows and port bindings would never be needed on the
> > > Chassis. Since lflow_run() and physical_run() are the bottlenecks,
> > > skipping the processing for such lflows and port bindings can save
> > > significant amount of CPU, at the same time largely reduce the
> > > number of rules in local openflow tables. This is specifically
> > > useful when most of the lswitches are created for bridged networks,
> > > where logical router is not used.
> > >
> > > Test precondition:
> > > 2k hypervisors, 20k lports, 200 lswitches (each with a localnet
> > > port).
> > >
> > > Test case:
> > > step1: add 50 hypervisors (simulated on 1 BM with 40 cores), and
> > >        wait for flow updates complete on all new hypervisors.
> > > step2: create a lswitch and a localnet port, create and bind 100
> > >        lports evenly on these hypervisors. Repeat this 5 times.
> > >
> > > Before the change:
> > > Step1 took around 20 minutes.
> > > Step2 took 936 seconds.
> > >
> > > After the change:
> > > Step1 took less than 1 minute: 20x faster.
> > > Step2 took 464 seconds: 2x faster.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
> >
> > This seems very reasonable to me.
> >
> > Can you think of a way to test this?
> 
> Ben, since it is an optimization without any new feature, I think
> regression should be good enough. Regarding regression, the current lrouter
> test case should cover the case when logical patch ports exist:
> 
> AT_SETUP([ovn -- 3 HVs, 3 LS, 3 lports/LS, 1 LR])
> 
> And localnet test case should cover the case when logical patch ports
> doesn't exist.
> 
> AT_SETUP([ovn -- 2 HVs, 4 lports/HV, localnet ports])
> 
> And I also tested the lrouter scenario in a openstack devstack environment
> ensured that it won't break anything.

OK, that's a good point.

I applied this to master.

Thanks,

Ben.
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