On Dec 2, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:30:08PM +0100, Mijo Safradin wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> It fails on master and on older git versions as well. Even using Debian 
>>>> Sid,
>>>> the same errors could be observed. Can you provide hardware details about
>>>> the power/s390 machines the mentioned test has been executed on?
>>> 
>>> Basics about the machines are in the Debian machine database:
>>> 
>>> The mips machine: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=corelli
>>> The powerpc machine: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=poulenc
>>> The s390 machine: https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=zandonai
>>> 
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>>>> When using the openvswitch-2.3.0.tar.gz release, most of the failed test do
>>>> pass, but other tests do fail.
>>> 
>>> All the tests you show failing below relate to ssl.  This is probably
>>> unrelated to endianness.  Please take a look at the testsuite log to
>>> find the details.
>>> 
>>>> Here's a subset of test which do fail on master and passed on 2.3.0
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest doing a "git bisect" run to find the point at which tests
>>> started failing due to endian problems.
>>> 
>> 
>> Ok, I did 'git bisect' for the first failing test case, which is
>>  'flow classifier - lookup segmentation'
>> No. 79 on master
>> No. 78 at bisect bad commit
>> 
>> ...
>> [root@s390x ovs-test]# git bisect bad
>> a64759f02d8324caf6c37af0ac4e3e1d26e02a43 is the first bad commit
>> commit a64759f02d8324caf6c37af0ac4e3e1d26e02a43
>> Author: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
>> Date:   Fri Jun 13 10:38:05 2014 -0700
>> 
>>    lib/classifier: Optimize megaflows for single rule case.
>> 
>>    When, during a classifier lookup, we narrow down to a single potential
>>    rule, it is enough to match on ("unwildcard") one bit that differs
>>    between the packet and the rule.
>> 
>>    This is a special case of the more general algorithm, where it is
>>    sufficient to match on enough bits that separates the packet from all
>>    higher priority rules than the matched rule.  For a miss that would be
>>    all the rules.  Implementing this is expensive for a more than a few
>>    rules.  This patch starts by doing this for a single rule when we
>>    already have it, also reducing the lookup cost by finishing the lookup
>>    earlier than before.
>> 
>>    Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
>>    Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>> 
>> :040000 040000 e912f31d212ce362445ee961447e1bc3c7ff393a
>> d0006051050c1e73a83811909f583d7d38b73229 M   lib
>> :040000 040000 2cbd9fba63166d7037843de87d150a4b47a79260
>> be70c481bc5241662029436eb79b520f6067512f M   tests
>> ...
>> 
>> It looks like the patch is not part of the 2.3.0 release, which
>> explains why the test doesn't fail using this release.
>> 
>> The fact that 'maskp' comes in LE order doesen't hurt here.
> 
> Thanks for narrowing it down.
> 
> Jarno, can you take a look and figure out a nice way to make this code
> work properly on both little-endian and big-endian systems?

Sure. Was there any log file of the failed test case?

  Jarno

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