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 entries. It seemed that the ARP packets
in/out of the VMs were being dropped.

We checked the ovs-vswitchd message logs when the network disconnection
happened, we found most of the messages complained high CPU usage of
ovs-switchd and "dropped log messages". (Samples are attached at the end of
email)

I'm writing the email for your kind help.

1. Did the "dropped log messages" cause the VMs losing network connections?
2. Is there any quick fix to this issue except replacing the OVS kernel
module as we couldn't reboot the hypervisor?


Many thanks,

Jian Qiu



Aug 19 18:49:23 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127360|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 36 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
Aug 19 18:49:23 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127361|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 16 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
Aug 19 18:49:23 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127362|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped 613
log messages in last 1 seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to
excessive rate
Aug 19 18:49:23 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127363|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 16 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
Aug 19 18:49:23 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127364|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 16 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
Aug 19 18:49:24 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127365|poll_loop|WARN|Dropped
1046 log messages in last 1 seconds (most recently, 1 seconds ago) due to
excessive rate
Aug 19 18:49:24 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127366|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 16 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
Aug 19 18:49:24 db-cloud02 ovs-vswitchd: 3127367|poll_loop|WARN|wakeup due
to [POLLIN] on fd 16 (file anon_inode:[eventpoll]) at lib/dpif-linux.c:1197
(52% CPU usage)
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