Until now, the jsonrpc code has only counted receiving a full JSON-RPC
messages as activity. This could theoretically time out, then, while a
very long message is in transit or if a slow link is involved. This commit
changes this code to count receiving any part of a message as activity.
This isn't a problem for OpenFlow connections because OpenFlow messages are
at most 64 kB in size.
This problem hasn't actually been observed in practice.
Bug #12789.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Until now, the jsonrpc module has used messages received from the
remote peer as the sole means to determine that the JSON-RPC
connection is up. This could in theory interact badly with a
remote peer that stops reading and processing messages from the
receive queue when there is a backlog in the send queue for a
given connection (ovsdb-server is an example of a program that
behaves this way). This commit fixes the problem by expanding
the definition of "activity" to include successfully sending
JSON-RPC data that was previously queued.
The above change is exactly analogous to the similar change
made to the rconn library in commit 133f2dc954 (rconn: Treat
draining a message from the send queue as activity.).
Bug #12789.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Receiving data is not the only reasonable way to verify that a connection
is up. For example, on a TCP connection, receiving an acknowledgment that
the remote side has accepted data that we sent is also a reasonable means.
Therefore, this commit generalizes the naming.
Also, similarly for the Python implementation: Reconnect.received() becomes
Reconnect.activity().
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
There isn't a lot of value in sending inactivity probes on unix
sockets. This patch changes the default to disable them.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
The ovs_error() and ovs_fatal() helper functions are useful enough
to be ported to Python. A user will be added in a future commit.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
This patch does minor style cleanups to the code in the python and
tests directory. There's other code floating around that could use
similar treatment, but updating it is not convenient at the moment.
These initial bindings pass a few hundred of the corresponding tests
for C implementations of various bits of the Open vSwitch library API.
The poorest part of them is actually the Python IDL interface in
ovs.db.idl, which has not received enough attention yet. It appears
to work, but it doesn't yet support writes (transactions) and it is
difficult to use. I hope to improve it as it becomes clear what
semantics Python applications actually want from an IDL.
