dpdkvhostuser ports are deprecated, but are still being recommended to
users through the documentation. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Directly copying the CMD from either the .rst file or the docs on the
web caused errors in the QEMU command because of how it was wrapped.
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
The 'Port/Rx Queue Assigment to PMD Threads' section has
expanded over time and now includes info about stats/commands,
manual pinning and different options for OVS assigning Rxqs to
PMDs.
Split them into different sections with sub-headings and move
the two similar paragraphs about stats together.
Rename 'Automatic assignment of Port/Rx Queue to PMD Threads'
section to 'PMD Automatic Load Balance'.
A few other minor cleanups as I was reading.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
This way it's easier to show it on a website as it will be updated
automatically along with the rest of the documentation.
Sphinx doesn't render everything perfectly, but it looks good enough
in both man and html versions. rST is a bit easier to read and it
takes less space.
Conversion performed manually since I didn't found any good tool
that can actually make the process any faster.
Along the way I replaced versions like x.y.90 with x.y+1, because
it doesn't seem correct to me to refer non-released versions of OVS
in the docs. Fixed a couple of small mistakes like duplicated
paragraph and reference to a different section by incorrect name.
Also removed bits of xml->nroff conversion code that is not needed
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>
The "name" parameter isn't optional so don't use brackets around it.
Fixes: 5c5c98cec2 ("docs/dpdk/bridge: Add miniflow extract section.")
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This change removes the default values for EAL args socket-mem and
socket-limit. As DPDK supports dynamic memory allocation, there is no
need to allocate a certain amount of memory on start-up, nor limit the
amount of memory available, if not requested.
Currently, socket-mem has a default value of 1024 when it is not
configured by the user, and socket-limit takes on the value of
socket-mem, 1024, by default. With this change, socket-mem is not
configured by default, meaning that socket-limit is not either.
Neither, either or both options can be set.
Removed extra logs that announce this change and fixed documentation.
Reported at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949850
Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <roriorde@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Users complained that per rxq pmd usage was confusing: summing those
values per pmd would never reach 100% even if increasing traffic load
beyond pmd capacity.
This is because the dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show command only reports "pure"
rxq cycles while some cycles are used in the pmd mainloop and adds up to
the total pmd load.
dpif-netdev/pmd-stats-show does report per pmd load usage.
This load is measured since the last dpif-netdev/pmd-stats-clear call.
On the other hand, the per rxq pmd usage reflects the pmd load on a 10s
sliding window which makes it non trivial to correlate.
Gather per pmd busy cycles with the same periodicity and report the
difference as overhead in dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show so that we have all
info in a single command.
Example:
$ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show
pmd thread numa_id 1 core_id 3:
isolated : true
port: dpdk0 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 90 %
overhead: 4 %
pmd thread numa_id 1 core_id 5:
isolated : false
port: vhost0 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
port: vhost1 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 93 %
port: vhost2 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
port: vhost6 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
overhead: 6 %
pmd thread numa_id 1 core_id 31:
isolated : true
port: dpdk1 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 86 %
overhead: 4 %
pmd thread numa_id 1 core_id 33:
isolated : false
port: vhost3 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
port: vhost4 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
port: vhost5 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 92 %
port: vhost7 queue-id: 0 (enabled) pmd usage: 0 %
overhead: 7 %
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Pinning an rxq to a PMD with pmd-rxq-affinity may be done for
various reasons such as reserving a full PMD for an rxq, or to
ensure that multiple rxqs from a port are handled on different PMDs.
Previously pmd-rxq-affinity always isolated the PMD so no other rxqs
could be assigned to it by OVS. There may be cases where there is
unused cycles on those pmds and the user would like other rxqs to
also be able to be assigned to it by OVS.
Add an option to pin the rxq and non-isolate the PMD. The default
behaviour is unchanged, which is pin and isolate the PMD.
In order to pin and non-isolate:
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:pmd-rxq-isolate=false
Note this is available only with group assignment type, as pinning
conflicts with the operation of the other rxq assignment algorithms.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Add an rxq scheduling option that allows rxqs to be grouped
on a pmd based purely on their load.
The current default 'cycles' assignment sorts rxqs by measured
processing load and then assigns them to a list of round robin PMDs.
This helps to keep the rxqs that require most processing on different
cores but as it selects the PMDs in round robin order, it equally
distributes rxqs to PMDs.
'cycles' assignment has the advantage in that it separates the most
loaded rxqs from being on the same core but maintains the rxqs being
spread across a broad range of PMDs to mitigate against changes to
traffic pattern.
'cycles' assignment has the disadvantage that in order to make the
trade off between optimising for current traffic load and mitigating
against future changes, it tries to assign and equal amount of rxqs
per PMD in a round robin manner and this can lead to a less than optimal
balance of the processing load.
Now that PMD auto load balance can help mitigate with future changes in
traffic patterns, a 'group' assignment can be used to assign rxqs based
on their measured cycles and the estimated running total of the PMDs.
In this case, there is no restriction about keeping equal number of
rxqs per PMD as it is purely load based.
This means that one PMD may have a group of low load rxqs assigned to it
while another PMD has one high load rxq assigned to it, as that is the
best balance of their measured loads across the PMDs.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Previously, if pmd-rxq-affinity was used to pin an rxq to
a core that was not in pmd-cpu-mask the rxq was not polled
for and the user received a warning. This meant that no traffic
would be received from that rxq.
Now that pinned and non-pinned rxqs are assigned to PMDs in
a common call to rxq scheduling, if an invalid core is
selected in pmd-rxq-affinity the rxq can be assigned an
available PMD (if any).
A warning will still be logged as the requested core could
not be used.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Deprecate current OVS provided defaults for DPDK socket-mem and
socket-limit that are planned to be removed in OVS 2.17. At that point
DPDK defaults will be used instead. Warnings have been added to alert
users in advance.
Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <roriorde@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This commit avoids many instances of "using subtable X for miniflow (x,y)"
in the ovs-vswitchd log when using the DPCLS Autovalidator. This occurs
when no specialized subtable is found, and the generic "_any" version of
the avx512 subtable search implementation was used. This change logs the
subtable usage once, avoiding duplicates.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Tests:
6: OVS-DPDK - MFEX Autovalidator
7: OVS-DPDK - MFEX Autovalidator Fuzzy
8: OVS-DPDK - MFEX Configuration
Added a new directory to store the PCAP file used
in the tests and a script to generate the fuzzy traffic
type pcap to be used in fuzzy unit test.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This commit introduces additional command line paramter
for mfex study function. If user provides additional packet out
it is used in study to compare minimum packets which must be processed
else a default value is choosen.
Also introduces a third paramter for choosing a particular pmd core.
$ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/miniflow-parser-set study 500 3
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This commit adds a section to the dpdk/bridge.rst netdev documentation,
detailing the added miniflow functionality. The newly added commands are
documented, and sample output is provided.
The use of auto-validator and special study function is also described
in detail as well as running fuzzy tests.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Main documentation for the service model and tutorial with the use case
and configuration examples.
Acked-by: Mark D. Gray <mark.d.gray@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
This commit adds a new command to retrieve the list of available
DPIF implementations. This can be used by to check what implementations
of the DPIF are available in any given OVS binary. It also returns which
implementations are in use by the OVS PMD threads.
Usage:
$ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/dpif-impl-get
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This commit adds a new command to allow the user to switch
the active DPIF implementation at runtime. A probe function
is executed before switching the DPIF implementation, to ensure
the CPU is capable of running the ISA required. For example, the
below code will switch to the AVX512 enabled DPIF assuming
that the runtime CPU is capable of running AVX512 instructions:
$ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/dpif-impl-set dpif_avx512
A new configuration flag is added to allow selection of the
default DPIF. This is useful for running the unit-tests against
the available DPIF implementations, without modifying each unit test.
The design of the testing & validation for ISA optimized DPIF
implementations is based around the work already upstream for DPCLS.
Note however that a DPCLS lookup has no state or side-effects, allowing
the auto-validator implementation to perform multiple lookups and
provide consistent statistic counters.
The DPIF component does have state, so running two implementations in
parallel and comparing output is not a valid testing method, as there
are changes in DPIF statistic counters (side effects). As a result, the
DPIF is tested directly against the unit-tests.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
The original version said that "monitor_cond_change" request response
should contain '"result": null'. However, if response message has form
like {"id":13, "result":null} or {"id":13} the ovsdb client
(ovn-controller) returns the folling misleading message and closes
connection.
2021-06-07T14:32:30.116Z|00026|jsonrpc|WARN|tcp:172.18.0.4:6642: received
bad JSON-RPC message: request must have "method"
2021-06-07T14:32:30.116Z|00027|reconnect|WARN|tcp:172.18.0.4:6642:
connection dropped (Protocol error)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Roytman <roytman@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Modify ci linux build script to use the latest DPDK stable release.
Modify Documentation to use the latest DPDK stable release 20.11.1
Update NEWS file to reflect the latest DPDK stable releases.
FAQ is updated to reflect the latest DPDK for each branch.
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Govindharajan <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
File layout for man pages in sphinx 4 by default changed [1] from:
Documentation/_ref/man/page.section
to:
Documentation/_ref/man/section/page.section
Ajusting our build scripts so they will be able to locate files
in new places. This fixes our CI build.
[1] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/7996
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Previously auto load balance did not trigger a reassignment when
there was any cross-numa polling as an rxq could be polled from a
different numa after reassign and it could impact estimates.
In the case where there is only one numa with pmds available, the
same numa will always poll before and after reassignment, so estimates
are valid. Allow PMD auto load balance to trigger a reassignment in
this case.
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Fix the example use case based on the decription.
EIR and CIR are measured in bytes/sec and considered 64-byte
IP packets size withtout 14-byte Ethernet header.
So fix the 1000pps example by: (64 - 14) * 1000 = 50,000
If the frame includes 4-byte FCS header, then it's
(64 - 14 - 4) * 1000 = 46,000
Fixes: e61bdffc2a ("netdev-dpdk: Add new DPDK RFC 4115 egress policer")
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Update the docs to remove the previously hardcoded values
and mention the load and improvement thresholds when
describing the operation of auto load balance.
Fixes: 62ab5594c2 ("dpif-netdev: Add parameters to configure PMD auto load balance.")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This patch adds an RPMBUILD_OPT so that user can enable
AF_XDP support in the rpm package by:
$ make rpm-fedora RPMBUILD_OPT="--with afxdp"
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
The default DPDK library used before this patch in case pkg-config
fails to find libdpdk is only valid for make based DPDK builds.
Hence remove them.
As a consequence, now this error message [1] is thrown when pkg-config
cannot find libdpdk instead of proceeding to check for a faulty
pkg-config and reporting incorrect error message [2].
Also, update the documentation to export PKG_CONFIG_PATH since on some
systems, the default install path for DPDK libraries is not present in
the default search path of pkg-config.
Ex: for Fedora 32 default pkg-config search path:
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig
while by default Meson installs DPDK libraries at:
/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig
[1] Package libdpdk was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libdpdk.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libdpdk', required by 'virtual:world', not found
[2] checking for DPDK... no
checking for faulty pkg-config version... yes
configure: error: Please upgrade pkg-config
Also, update the build documentation for AVX512 optimization.
Fixes: 252e1e5764 ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK v20.11.")
Reported-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Currently, ovsdb-server stores complete value for the column in a database
file and in a raft log in case this column changed. This means that
transaction that adds, for example, one new acl to a port group creates
a log entry with all UUIDs of all existing acls + one new. Same for
ports in logical switches and routers and more other columns with sets
in Northbound DB.
There could be thousands of acls in one port group or thousands of ports
in a single logical switch. And the typical use case is to add one new
if we're starting a new service/VM/container or adding one new node in a
kubernetes or OpenStack cluster. This generates huge amount of traffic
within ovsdb raft cluster, grows overall memory consumption and hurts
performance since all these UUIDs are parsed and formatted to/from json
several times and stored on disks. And more values we have in a set -
more space a single log entry will occupy and more time it will take to
process by ovsdb-server cluster members.
Simple test:
1. Start OVN sandbox with clustered DBs:
# make sandbox SANDBOXFLAGS='--nbdb-model=clustered --sbdb-model=clustered'
2. Run a script that creates one port group and adds 4000 acls into it:
# cat ../memory-test.sh
pg_name=my_port_group
export OVN_NB_DAEMON=$(ovn-nbctl --pidfile --detach --log-file -vsocket_util:off)
ovn-nbctl pg-add $pg_name
for i in $(seq 1 4000); do
echo "Iteration: $i"
ovn-nbctl --log acl-add $pg_name from-lport $i udp drop
done
ovn-nbctl acl-del $pg_name
ovn-nbctl pg-del $pg_name
ovs-appctl -t $(pwd)/sandbox/nb1 memory/show
ovn-appctl -t ovn-nbctl exit
---
4. Check the current memory consumption of ovsdb-server processes and
space occupied by database files:
# ls sandbox/[ns]b*.db -alh
# ps -eo vsz,rss,comm,cmd | egrep '=[ns]b[123].pid'
Test results with current ovsdb log format:
On-disk Nb DB size : ~369 MB
RSS of Nb ovsdb-servers: ~2.7 GB
Time to finish the test: ~2m
In order to mitigate memory consumption issues and reduce computational
load on ovsdb-servers let's store diff between old and new values
instead. This will make size of each log entry that adds single acl to
port group (or port to logical switch or anything else like that) very
small and independent from the number of already existing acls (ports,
etc.).
Added a new marker '_is_diff' into a file transaction to specify that
this transaction contains diffs instead of replacements for the existing
data.
One side effect is that this change will actually increase the size of
file transaction that removes more than a half of entries from the set,
because diff will be larger than the resulted new value. However, such
operations are rare.
Test results with change applied:
On-disk Nb DB size : ~2.7 MB ---> reduced by 99%
RSS of Nb ovsdb-servers: ~580 MB ---> reduced by 78%
Time to finish the test: ~1m27s ---> reduced by 27%
After this change new ovsdb-server is still able to read old databases,
but old ovsdb-server will not be able to read new ones.
Since new servers could join ovsdb cluster dynamically it's hard to
implement any runtime mechanism to handle cases where different
versions of ovsdb-server joins the cluster. However we still need to
handle cluster upgrades. For this case added special command line
argument to disable new functionality. Documentation updated with the
recommended way to upgrade the ovsdb cluster.
Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <dceara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
The initial website page is difficult to read because of
the large amount of links from different parts of the whole
documentation. Most of all those links come from their
index page referenced in the section 'Contents' on the side.
Another issue is that because the page is static, new links
might not get included.
This patch simplifies the main page by highlighting the project
level documentation. The static part is reduced to the main
level index pages.
All the links are available by clicking on 'Full Table of
Contents' at the end of Documentation section.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
In the libreswan case, 'ovs-monitor-ipsec' sets
'left' to '%defaultroute' which will use the local address
of the default route interface as the source IP address. In
multihomed environments, this may not be correct if the user
wants to specify what the source IP address is. In OVS, this
can be set for tunnel ports using the 'local_ip' option. This
patch also uses that option to populate the 'ipsec.conf'
configuration. If the 'local_ip' option is not present, it
will default to the previous behaviour of using '%defaultroute'
Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906280
Signed-off-by: Mark Gray <mark.d.gray@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
MPLSoUDP (__ https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510) is one among them.
The Bareudp tunnel provides a generic L3 encapsulation support for
tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside a UDP
tunnel.
An example to create bareudp device to tunnel MPLS traffic is
given
$ ovs-vsctl add-port br_mpls udp_port -- set interface udp_port \
type=bareudp options:remote_ip=2.1.1.3
options:local_ip=2.1.1.2 \
options:payload_type=0x8847 options:dst_port=6635
The bareudp device supports special handling for MPLS & IP as
they can have multiple ethertypes. MPLS procotcol can have ethertypes
ETH_P_MPLS_UC (unicast) & ETH_P_MPLS_MC (multicast). IP protocol can have
ethertypes ETH_P_IP (v4) & ETH_P_IPV6 (v6).
The bareudp device to tunnel L3 traffic with multiple ethertypes
(MPLS & IP) can be created by passing the L3 protocol name as string in
the field payload_type. An example to create bareudp device to tunnel
MPLS unicast & multicast traffic is given below.::
$ ovs-vsctl add-port br_mpls udp_port -- set interface
udp_port \
type=bareudp options:remote_ip=2.1.1.3
options:local_ip=2.1.1.2 \
options:payload_type=mpls options:dst_port=6635
Signed-off-by: Martin Varghese <martin.varghese@nokia.com>
Acked-By: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Newer versions of Faucet use a dynamic OpenFlow pipeline based on what
features are enabled in the configuration file. Update log output, flow
table dumps and explanations to be consistent with newer Faucet versions.
Remove mentions of bugs that we have since fixed in Faucet since the
tutorial was originally written.
Adds documentation on changes to Open vSwitch commands to recommend
using a version that is compatible with the features of the tutorial.
Reported-by: Matthias Ableidinger <ableimat@gmx.at>
Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2018-August/047180.html
Signed-off-by: Brad Cowie <brad@wand.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
This is an initial version of GitHub Actions support. It mostly
mimics our current Travis CI build matrix with slight differences.
The main issue is that we don't have ARM support here.
Minor difference that we can not install 32-bit versions of libunwind
and libunbound since those are not avaialble in repository.
Higher concurrency level allows to finish all tests less than in 20
minutes. Which is 3 times faster than in Travis.
.travis folder renamed to .ci to highlight that it used not only for
Travis CI. Travis CI support will be reduced to only test ARM builds
soon and will be completely removed when travis-ci.org will be turned
into read-only mode.
What happened to Travis CI:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-November/377773.html
Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
In some cloud topologies, using DPDK VF representors in guest requires
configuring a VF before it is assigned to the guest.
A first basic option for such configuration is setting the VF MAC
address. Add a key 'dpdk-vf-mac' to the 'options' column of the Interface
table.
This option can be used as such:
$ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk-rep0 -- set Interface dpdk-rep0 type=dpdk \
options:dpdk-vf-mac=00:11:22:33:44:55
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Eli Britstein <elibr@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
F32 requires the "python3-openvswitch" package now. Also, the
iptables chain "IN_FedoraServer_allow" does not exist on Fedora 32.
Signed-off-by: Mark Gray <mark.d.gray@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Garver <eric@garver.life>
Acked-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
While only 2 branches are formally maintained (LTS and latest release),
OVS team usually provides stable releases for other branches too, at
least for branches between LTS and latest.
When transition period ends for an old LTS, we, according to
backporting-patches.rst, could stop backporting bug fixes to branches
older than new LTS. While this might be OK for an upstream project
it doesn't sound like a user-friendly policy just because it means
that we're dropping support for branches released less than a year
ago.
Below addition to the release process might make the process a bit
smoother in terms that we will not drop support for not so old branches
even after the transition period, if committers will follow the
"as far as it goes" backporting policy. And we will provide stable
releases for these branches for at least 2 years (these releases could
be less frequent than releases on LTS branches).
After 2 year period (4 releases) committers are still free to backport
fixes they think are needed on older branches, however we will likely
not provide actual releases on these branches, unless it's specially
requested and discussed.
Additionally, "4 releases" policy aligns with the DPDK LTS support
policy, i.e. we will be able to validate and release last OVS releases
with the last available DPDK LTS, e.g. OVS 2.11 last stable release
will likely be released with the 18.11 EOL release validated.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Standardize that we will mark a new release as LTS every two years
to avoid situation where we have a really old LTS branch that no-one
actually uses, but we have to support and provide releases for it.
This will also make release process more predictable, so users will
be able to rely on it and plan their upgrades accordingly.
As a bonus, 2 years support cycle kind of aligns with 2 years support
cycle of DPDK LTS releases.
Still keeping a window for us to discuss and avoid marking some
particular release as LTS in case of significant issues with it.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
