Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-22 Thread Jian Qiu
Thanks Gurucharan and Jesse for your thoughtful advices. We will try both approaches. Thanks, Jian On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > >> Thanks Gurucharan! >> >> It sounds interesting. We'd like to try this approach.

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-22 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Thanks Gurucharan! > > It sounds interesting. We'd like to try this approach. But could you > please point out where I could find OVS kernel-userspace compatibility > information? Is there any more detailed guide to upgrade ovs kernel without > r

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-22 Thread Jesse Gross
Yes, setting it too high can also increase CPU consumption. You should pick a value that reflects your working set of flows. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Thanks Jesse! I will try to upgrade the userspace to 1.9.0, the current LTS > version. > > With regard to flow-eviction-t

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-21 Thread Jian Qiu
Thanks Gurucharan! It sounds interesting. We'd like to try this approach. But could you please point out where I could find OVS kernel-userspace compatibility information? Is there any more detailed guide to upgrade ovs kernel without reboot? Many thanks, Jian On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:04 AM,

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-21 Thread Jian Qiu
Thanks Jesse! I will try to upgrade the userspace to 1.9.0, the current LTS version. With regard to flow-eviction-threshold, what is the recommended value? Is there any side-effect if we increase the threshold to its maximal, say 65535? Many thanks! Jian On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Jesse

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-21 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Jesse, > > Thanks for your quick response. > > Which version would you recommend upgrade to? As you know, this is our > production environment, stability is the first priority. > > May I upgrade the userspace programs only? We might not be able t

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-21 Thread Jesse Gross
Depending on exact source of the problem, it may still be useful to update the userspace utilities and/or look at increasing the flow-eviction-threshold parameter. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Got it. > > If we stick to 1.4.6 kernel, is there any parameter we can tune to mit

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-19 Thread Jian Qiu
Got it. If we stick to 1.4.6 kernel, is there any parameter we can tune to mitigate the situation? Many thanks! Jian Qiu On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > > Jesse, > > > > Thanks for your quick response. > > > > Which v

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-19 Thread Jesse Gross
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Jesse, > > Thanks for your quick response. > > Which version would you recommend upgrade to? As you know, this is our > production environment, stability is the first priority. > > May I upgrade the userspace programs only? We might not be able to

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-19 Thread Jian Qiu
Jesse, Thanks for your quick response. Which version would you recommend upgrade to? As you know, this is our production environment, stability is the first priority. May I upgrade the userspace programs only? We might not be able to upgrade kernel module as replacing kernel module may require a

Re: [ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-19 Thread Jesse Gross
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Jian Qiu wrote: > Hi, > > We deployed openvswitch 1.4.6 on CentOS 6.4 in our production envioronment. > OVS were used to bridge KVM VMs. > > Recently, we found some VMs lost network connections randomly. When the > event happened, we login into the VMs through VNC

[ovs-discuss] VMs lost network connections randomly

2013-08-19 Thread Jian Qiu
Hi, We deployed openvswitch 1.4.6 on CentOS 6.4 in our production envioronment. OVS were used to bridge KVM VMs. Recently, we found some VMs lost network connections randomly. When the event happened, we login into the VMs through VNC console and found the ARP tables were full of incomplete entri