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 server reboot and we
couldn't stop the running service on it.

Many thanks!

Jian Qiu



On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Jian Qiu <[email protected]> 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 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?
>
> No, it just means that the log messages have been rate limited.
>
> > 2. Is there any quick fix to this issue except replacing the OVS kernel
> > module as we couldn't reboot the hypervisor?
>
> Not a quick fix but newer versions of OVS will likely improve your
> performance.
>
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