Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS Stale Flows in OpenFlow Beacon

2013-07-25 Thread David Erickson
Hi Dmita, At first glance I'd say there is some Beacon side debugging to be done first before considering a possible OVS issue. Lets work through it on the Beacon forum and then come back here if needed. David On 7/25/2013 2:15 PM, Dmita Levy wrote: Hello, When I connect a Host running OVS

[ovs-discuss] Poll interval warning

2012-04-03 Thread David Erickson
Hi I caught this on my log and was wondering if it is anything I should be concerned about: Apr 03 06:25:01|02247|timeval|WARN|83 ms poll interval (0 ms user, 40 ms system) is over 94 times the weighted mean interval 1 ms (16010646 samples) Thanks, David

Re: [ovs-discuss] Kernel soft lockups in Xen 5.6

2012-03-09 Thread David Erickson
On 03/09/2012 04:14 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:33 PM, David Erickson wrote: Hey guys- We've been seeing some occasional soft lockups on some of our Xen boxes reporting messages like the following: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 80s! [ovs-vswitchd:4950] BUG:

[ovs-discuss] Kernel soft lockups in Xen 5.6

2012-03-09 Thread David Erickson
Hey guys- We've been seeing some occasional soft lockups on some of our Xen boxes reporting messages like the following: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 80s! [ovs-vswitchd:4950] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 80s! [netback/0:1126] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 91462s! [tapdisk2:8473

Re: [ovs-discuss] Inband Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-22 Thread David Erickson
On 12/1/2011 2:38 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 12/01/2011 01:11 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 12/1/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:02:46PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: On 12/1/2011 12:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:18:15PM -0800, David Erickson

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-21 Thread David Erickson
On 12/15/2011 10:48 AM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:18 PM, David Erickson wrote: I do agree with your analysis in that it is narrowing some traffic but actually broadening it for ARPs to/from a remote. I think we can actually solve both problems by unioning the existing b/c

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-06 Thread David Erickson
On 12/06/2011 01:33 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:38 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 11/1/2011 1:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:11:11PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Justin, you've also experienced the pain of in-band control. Would you mind reviewing Da

Re: [ovs-discuss] Inband Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-01 Thread David Erickson
On 12/01/2011 01:11 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 12/1/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:02:46PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: On 12/1/2011 12:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:18:15PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: I think I've run into another

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-01 Thread David Erickson
On 12/1/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:02:46PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: On 12/1/2011 12:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:18:15PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: I think I've run into another semi-related issue with inband. I recently change

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-12-01 Thread David Erickson
On 12/1/2011 12:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:18:15PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: I think I've run into another semi-related issue with inband. I recently changed the fail mode of my OVS instances from standalone to secure because I wanted them to continue using the

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-11-30 Thread David Erickson
I think I've run into another semi-related issue with inband. I recently changed the fail mode of my OVS instances from standalone to secure because I wanted them to continue using the rules that had been set in the event the controller died or needed restarting. This had the unfortunate side

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-11-21 Thread David Erickson
On 11/13/2011 11:23 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 11/13/2011 9:16 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:38 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 11/1/2011 1:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:11:11PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Justin, you've also experienced the pain of in

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-11-13 Thread David Erickson
On 11/13/2011 9:16 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:38 PM, David Erickson wrote: On 11/1/2011 1:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:11:11PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Justin, you've also experienced the pain of in-band control. Would you mind reviewing Da

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Thanks, David >From 345bf1f2b596883eec4622828c138ea24e238338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Erickson Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:35:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Narrowed allowed ARPs with inband rules Per the DESIGN document the following rules have been changed from: (b) ARP replies to the local port's MAC address.

Re: [ovs-discuss] fail-mode secure behavior

2011-11-13 Thread David Erickson
e: This is expected for inband because in order for the dp to connect to the controller ARP must pass through? (Though this IP address isn't the one that it would actually use to talk to the controller though. ) Just curious. Thanks, Aaron On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:59 PM, David Erickso

Re: [ovs-discuss] fail-mode secure behavior

2011-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Are you in inband mode? If so this is expected. Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message - From: "Aaron Rosen" To: Subject: [ovs-discuss] fail-mode secure behavior Date: Sun, Nov 13, 2011 12:27 pm Hello I had a quick question about the fail secure beha

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-09-09 Thread David Erickson
On 9/9/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:55:18PM -0400, Nicholas Bastin wrote: Would you accept a patch to OVS which allowed a user to configure a single VLAN to which the in-band rules applied? Basically, instead of wildcarding the VLAN tag on all the in-band rules, it

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-09-09 Thread David Erickson
On 9/9/2011 9:54 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:36:25AM -0700, David Erickson wrote: On 9/9/2011 9:16 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:11:39PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: Hi All- I'm seeing some confusing behavior happening relating to ARPs and OVS 1.2.1

Re: [ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-09-09 Thread David Erickson
Thanks Nick for the reference that was useful, I had seen it before but forgot where it lived. On 9/9/2011 9:16 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:11:39PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: Hi All- I'm seeing some confusing behavior happening relating to ARPs and OVS 1.2.1 (al

Re: [ovs-discuss] Changing OVS versions in XenServer

2011-09-09 Thread David Erickson
On 9/9/2011 12:10 AM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:22 AM, David Erickson wrote: On 9/7/2011 7:10 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:29 PM, David Erickson wrote: Is there a specific procedure for moving between OVS versions in XenServer? I've done this a few

[ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

2011-09-08 Thread David Erickson
Hi All- I'm seeing some confusing behavior happening relating to ARPs and OVS 1.2.1 (also on 1.1.1 and probably 1.0.1). This is a XS machine with 1 ethernet port, so in-band connection from OVS to the controller. Specifically there are two cases where I would expect packets to be sent up to th

Re: [ovs-discuss] system@dp0: execute 0, 1 failed (Invalid argument) on packet

2011-09-08 Thread David Erickson
Thanks Ben -David On 09/08/2011 12:38 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: I sent out a patch that makes OFPP_NONE work for me: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-September/011038.html After it's in, I'll port it to branch-1.2. On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:01:16PM -0400, Aaron Rosen wrote: Thank

Re: [ovs-discuss] Changing OVS versions in XenServer

2011-09-08 Thread David Erickson
On 9/7/2011 7:10 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:29 PM, David Erickson wrote: Is there a specific procedure for moving between OVS versions in XenServer? I've done this a few times, and frequently I find myself in a situation where the xenbr0 device has completely disapp

Re: [ovs-discuss] Failure sending LLDPs inside Packet Out messages

2011-09-07 Thread David Erickson
On 9/7/2011 7:02 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 06:54:27PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: I am seeing the following in the ovs-vswitchd.log when sending LLDP packets using OpenFlow's Packet Out on OVS 1.2.1: Sep 07 21:47:08|00151|dpif|WARN|system@xenbr0: execute 1 failed (In

[ovs-discuss] Failure sending LLDPs inside Packet Out messages

2011-09-07 Thread David Erickson
Hi- I am seeing the following in the ovs-vswitchd.log when sending LLDP packets using OpenFlow's Packet Out on OVS 1.2.1: Sep 07 21:47:08|00151|dpif|WARN|system@xenbr0: execute 1 failed (Invalid argument) on packet 00:00:00:00:00:02 > 01:80:c2:00:00:0e, ethertype Unknown (0x88cc), length 48:

[ovs-discuss] Changing OVS versions in XenServer

2011-09-07 Thread David Erickson
Hi all- Is there a specific procedure for moving between OVS versions in XenServer? I've done this a few times, and frequently I find myself in a situation where the xenbr0 device has completely disappeared, and I couldn't find a way to restore it other than re-installing Xen. In particular

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS controller reconnection on XenServer reboot

2011-05-03 Thread David Erickson
On 5/2/2011 11:57 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On May 2, 2011, at 11:48 PM, David Erickson wrote: Ah ok so ovs-vsctl to this management protocol is similar to what dpctl is to OpenFlow? Ye. In OVS, the utilities map as follows: ovs-vsctl -> ovsdb-server (OVS management proto

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS controller reconnection on XenServer reboot

2011-05-02 Thread David Erickson
On 5/2/2011 9:13 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:10:02PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: On 5/2/2011 7:09 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On May 2, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:51:14PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: I've noticed that OVS isn't

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS controller reconnection on XenServer reboot

2011-05-02 Thread David Erickson
On 5/2/2011 7:09 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: On May 2, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:51:14PM -0700, David Erickson wrote: I've noticed that OVS isn't connecting to the controller on boot/reboot, is there an option somewhere I need to set to enable

[ovs-discuss] OVS controller reconnection on XenServer reboot

2011-05-02 Thread David Erickson
Hi all- I've noticed that OVS isn't connecting to the controller on boot/reboot, is there an option somewhere I need to set to enable this? On further inspection when I run ovs-vsctl list bridge it looks like the bridge lost both its controller entry and its other_config:datapath-id. Is ther

Re: [ovs-discuss] XCP support?

2010-01-18 Thread David Erickson
Justin Pettit wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 23:53 +, David Erickson wrote: I was just doing some reading about XCP and was wondering what sort of support (if any) vswitch has within XCP currently? And what the roadmap/timeline (if

Re: [ovs-discuss] XCP support?

2010-01-06 Thread David Erickson
Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:53:23PM -0800, David Erickson wrote: I was just doing some reading about XCP and was wondering what sort of support (if any) vswitch has within XCP currently? And what the roadmap/timeline (if available) looks like? What have you been reading? Is

[ovs-discuss] XCP support?

2010-01-06 Thread David Erickson
I was just doing some reading about XCP and was wondering what sort of support (if any) vswitch has within XCP currently? And what the roadmap/timeline (if available) looks like? Thanks, David ___ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-14 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: The crux is the netflow message is matching the flow expiration. There was nothing in the ovs-vswitchd.log file other than messages about connecting to NOX and exiting fail-open mode, which was well

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: The crux is the netflow message is matching the flow expiration. There was nothing in the ovs-vswitchd.log file other than messages about connecting to NOX and exiting fail-open mode, which was well before this test was performed. Can you try

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: I've attached the packet dump of the netflow message from the switch causing the problems. Also as an aside, I was only able to get it to send one netflow message because my machine returned an icmp error back to ovs since

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Justin Pettit wrote: On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:28 AM, David Erickson wrote: I've attached the packet dump of the netflow message from the switch causing the problems. Also as an aside, I was only able to get it to send one netflow message because my machine returned an icmp error back t

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-13 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: 1. If you query the flow stats before the expiration message, do you get the right results? You mentioned that this was true before but these flows are less than your 10 second polling interval. The values still look wrong from the stats message

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-12 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: This patch seemed to work but exposed another bizarre problem. So my setup is the same, 2 Xen servers with OVS, 1 reference OF software switch inbetween the two, a wget from .12 to .13 which is running apache. When the flows expire, dpid 17 which is

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-11 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: Hi Jesse, Certainly the first, however I am seeing this bug on both short and long (20+seconds) flows, both with an idle timeout of whatever the default NOX 0.4 timeout is (I'm assuming 5s?). Does that qualify? Yeah, a 5 second idle timeout will trigger this problem.

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-10 Thread David Erickson
Jesse Gross wrote: David Erickson wrote: However when the flow expires, the byte/packet counter are zero. I sent off a patch for review that fixes a problem with the counters in flow expiration messages, which is hopefully the same problem as the one you are having. Does this match your

[ovs-discuss] Flow Expiration returning zeros for byte/packet counts

2009-11-10 Thread David Erickson
Hi all, At Justin's request I am forwarding this bug report along to this email address. I am seeing a problem where flow expirations are consistently returning zeros for packet/byte counts on a specific flow I am inserting. I am using OVS build 1497 that Justin gave me today. The flow has