So it does not work well enough, see this output [1]. I have not invested
too much time in analyzing why these failures have occurred although some
of them look rather suspicious, especially DEFAULT_PIPELINE_FLOW_70.

[1]
Failed tests:
  NetvirtIT.testNetVirt:421 Could not find flow in operational: Flow
[_flowName=DEFAULT_PIPELINE_FLOW_70, _hardTimeout=0, _id=Uri
[_value=DEFAULT_PIPELINE_FLOW_70], _idleTimeout=0, _key=FlowKey [_id=Uri
[_value=DEFAULT_PIPELINE_FLOW_70]], _tableId=70, _barrier=false,
_strict=true, augmentation=[]]--Node [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963], _key=NodeKey [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963]], augmentation=[]]
  NetvirtIT.testNetVirtFixedSG:493 Could not find flow in operational: Flow
[_flowName=Egress_DHCP_Client_Permit_, _hardTimeout=0, _id=Uri
[_value=Egress_DHCP_Client_Permit_], _idleTimeout=0, _key=FlowKey [_id=Uri
[_value=Egress_DHCP_Client_Permit_]], _tableId=40, _barrier=false,
_strict=true, augmentation=[]]--Node [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963], _key=NodeKey [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963]], augmentation=[]]
  NetvirtIT.testNeutronNet:640 Could not find flow in operational: Flow
[_flowName=TunnelMiss_101, _hardTimeout=0, _id=Uri [_value=TunnelMiss_101],
_idleTimeout=0, _key=FlowKey [_id=Uri [_value=TunnelMiss_101]],
_tableId=110, _barrier=false, _strict=true, augmentation=[]]--Node [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963], _key=NodeKey [_id=Uri
[_value=openflow:106208305082963]], augmentation=[]]


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Given that we crossed the M5, and the time we have in hand, long term
> solution of generating equals/hashcode and getAllAugmentation doesn't look
> feasible. So in my opinion, this looks like a good short term solution.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Josh Hershberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Will do a little later. However, our current code does not set cookies
>> and if we do not really think that is the correct long term solution, are
>> we sure we want it now?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So i hooked up the He plugin custom comparator code to the Li plugin -
>>> FlowRegistryKeyFactory.
>>> Custom comparator will only trigger if it won't find the FlowRegistryKey
>>> in the flowRegistery TrieMap.
>>> With this all the operational flow related regressions will be address.
>>>
>>> Josh, can you please test with this patch and see if it resolves the
>>> issue. It does not use augmentation comparator, rather it uses cookie value
>>> in comparison, so as far as you are using unique cookie, operational flow
>>> should be present at the correct location in operational data store.
>>>
>>> Anil
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Abhijit Kumbhare <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds good (discussing over email till the meeting on Thursday).
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just realised that next meeting is on Thursday (still i feel
>>>>> Openflowplugin meeting is on Monday), which is i think going to be bit
>>>>> late. Can we discuss on the short term plan in this mail thread so that we
>>>>> can fix it on time ? There are couple of more bugs that is reported 
>>>>> related
>>>>> to the same issue as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Abhijit, can we please put this on agenda for next weeks meeting, we
>>>>>> need to resolve this issue because it probably will surface many
>>>>>> regressions with Li plugin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Josh Hershberg <[email protected]
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Problem
>>>>>>>> ========================
>>>>>>>> Openflowplugin has a "registry" of flows within which flows are
>>>>>>>> stored in a hash table. When a flow comes in an update (OFST_FLOW) it 
>>>>>>>> does
>>>>>>>> not have the flow id assigned to it when it was created via the md-sal.
>>>>>>>> Openflowplugin looks up the flow in the registry to find the id of the
>>>>>>>> flow. The problem is, that there are multiple representations of the 
>>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>> flow in our yang models and depending on where and how the flow 
>>>>>>>> entered the
>>>>>>>> system it will be represented syntactically different but semantically
>>>>>>>> identical. As far as I could tell the syntactic differences were around
>>>>>>>> "container" structures, not the Match objects themselves. The 
>>>>>>>> .hashCode and
>>>>>>>> .equals methods generated for the md-sal objects are effected by the
>>>>>>>> syntactic elements and two semantically identical flows will have 
>>>>>>>> different
>>>>>>>> .hashCodes and will not be .equals and will therefor not be found in 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> registry and added to the OPERATIONAL data store with "alien" flow 
>>>>>>>> IDs. You
>>>>>>>> can see an example of the toString'ed md-sal objects and how they 
>>>>>>>> differ
>>>>>>>> syntactically but are identical semantically in the description of the 
>>>>>>>> bug
>>>>>>>> [1].
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> HE Solution [2]
>>>>>>>> ========================
>>>>>>>> In the He plugin the solution was to write a custom compare
>>>>>>>> function (I assume there's a hash too but didn't check). The compare
>>>>>>>> function manually compares the fields of the match which is what the
>>>>>>>> generated .equals function does but with one big difference, the custom
>>>>>>>> compare function skips any extension Match objects.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ​Below problem is solved by adding cookie in the flow comparison, so
>>>>>>> if you use different cookie value for these flows, their operational 
>>>>>>> flow
>>>>>>> will be augmented at the correct id. It's not the solution, but rather a
>>>>>>> workaround thats been used in HE plugin. ​
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What this means is that two flows that differ only in an extenstion
>>>>>>>> match, e.g., NxmNxTunIpv4DstGrouping, will be considered equal and one 
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> overwrite the other in OPERATIONAL.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My Patch [3]
>>>>>>>> ========================
>>>>>>>> I pushed a patch that walks the augmentations and compares the
>>>>>>>> match objects themselves, ignoring the containers but comparing the
>>>>>>>> extension Match objects. It does this by looping through a hard coded 
>>>>>>>> list
>>>>>>>> of augmentations and then comparing the Match objects contained 
>>>>>>>> therein.
>>>>>>>> Jozef Becigal pointed out, correctly, that this will break if there is 
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> new extension Match added because the list is hard coded.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A possible solution to the extension problem is to change the code
>>>>>>>> gen so that Augmentable gets a new method called getAllAugmentations 
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> would return a list of all the attached augmentations. That way we 
>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> dynamically compare all matches, removing the need for a hard coded 
>>>>>>>> list of
>>>>>>>> possible extension augmentations. This is a relatively simple fix, 
>>>>>>>> though
>>>>>>>> (as Sam pointed out) the mdsal project is post code freeze so it would 
>>>>>>>> take
>>>>>>>> a little maneuvering.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Another issue with this solution, though this can be solved
>>>>>>>> relatively easily is that the current implementation relies on the 
>>>>>>>> ordering
>>>>>>>> of the Matches which I'm not sure is safe.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Decisions
>>>>>>>> ========================
>>>>>>>> 1. We could fall back on the HE solution
>>>>>>>> 2. We could continue with my patch which is imperfect but seems to
>>>>>>>> cover more cases than the He plugin solution (though less "tried and 
>>>>>>>> true"
>>>>>>>> as He was running for quite a while)
>>>>>>>> 3. Take the Augmentable.getAllAugmentations route.
>>>>>>>> 4. ??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ​I think jozef mention that we should leave the comparison of
>>>>>>> extension to the extensions itself, so extensions should implement their
>>>>>>> own hashcode/equals. Probably that's what you mean by (3)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -J
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1] https://bugs.opendaylight.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6146
>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>>> openflowplugin/applications/statistics-manager/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/openflowplugin/applications/statistics/manager/impl/helper/FlowComparatorFactory.java
>>>>>>>> [3] https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/41542/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Abhijit Kumbhare <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Getting this on the OpenFlow mailing list. Also changed the
>>>>>>>>> subject to be slightly more related to the actual topic than "Gerrit 
>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> stuck" :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Anyway Josh - do you want to summarize your solution (and the
>>>>>>>>> problem) for the folks new to this discussion?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Abhijit
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Josh Hershberg <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Which I think my patch is! The differences between the Match
>>>>>>>>>> objects in question are syntactic and not semantic. I added a compare
>>>>>>>>>> method that ignores the structural differences.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Sam Hague <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> As Josh mentions the issue is that the match object coming back
>>>>>>>>>>> is not the same as what was written to mdsal so it ends up as a 
>>>>>>>>>>> different
>>>>>>>>>>> flow. We need a better way to compare the flows.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 19, 2016 2:43 AM, "Josh Hershberg" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Adding Sam.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Sam, this is the alien flow issue.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Anil Vishnoi <
>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> +adding other folks
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Josh,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for reminding me of the patch.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Andrej/Jozef, This is the patch, regarding which i asked a
>>>>>>>>>>>> question on how we currently compare the operational flow and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> config flow
>>>>>>>>>>>> in lithium plugin?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In the helium plugin we have custom comparators to compare the
>>>>>>>>>>>> config and operational flow that do explicit match using the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> matching
>>>>>>>>>>>> construct of the flow ( + cookie). Looks like in lithium plugin we 
>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>> using hashcode/equals for the same ( i didn't get a chance to look 
>>>>>>>>>>>> at the
>>>>>>>>>>>> code yet), which i am afraid won't work for all the scenario, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> specially
>>>>>>>>>>>> augmentation. Using custom comparator for matching flow for 
>>>>>>>>>>>> augmentation is
>>>>>>>>>>>> also not really a good idea, because there can be many extension 
>>>>>>>>>>>> (openflow
>>>>>>>>>>>> and vendor specific) and handling them in the plugin is not a good 
>>>>>>>>>>>> idea. In
>>>>>>>>>>>> helium plugin, i added cookie as a part of the flow comparison, so 
>>>>>>>>>>>> if you
>>>>>>>>>>>> have two flows that is different only by the extension matches, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> then user
>>>>>>>>>>>> can use cookie to differentiate the flows, so custom comparator 
>>>>>>>>>>>> don't have
>>>>>>>>>>>> to match based on the augmentation.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Can you please share some more details on the existing
>>>>>>>>>>>> comparison mechanism and lets discuss how we can resolve this 
>>>>>>>>>>>> issue in
>>>>>>>>>>>> better way.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>> Anil
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Josh Hershberg <
>>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Anil,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Could you please take a look at this gerrit? Just want to make
>>>>>>>>>>>>> sure it's not buried or stuck or something.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Josh
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/41542/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>> Anil
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Anil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Anil
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Anil
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> Anil
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Anil
>
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