On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:36:31PM +0800, ychen wrote:
> I have found that when adding lots of ports, system consumes more and more
> time when ports number increasing.
> And the main time is consumed on encapsulation and decapsulation the JSON
> message between vsctl and ovsdb-server.
> when vsctl starts, it will first send monitor request to ovsdb-server, and
> then db-server send all the records with the related column to vsctl
> please notice the word "all records", so that when ports number gets
> larger, system will need more time to encap and decap the JSON message
> between vsctl and db-server.
>
>
> I suggest to slightly modify the RPC method "Monitor" in RFC 7047. The
> main idea is only monitor specified records when add /del/set/get port.
> The original Monitor method is like that:
> Each <monitor-request> is an object with the following members:
> "columns": [<column>*] optional
> "select": <monitor-select> optional
> The columns, if present, define the columns within the table to be
> monitored. <monitor-select> is an object with the following members:
> "initial": <boolean> optional
> "insert": <boolean> optional
> "delete": <boolean> optional
>
> "modify": <boolean> optional
> And I want give this method a slight change:
> <monitor-select> is an object with the following members:
> "initial": <boolean> optional
> "insert": <boolean> optional
> "delete": <boolean> optional
>
> "modify": <boolean> optional
> "where": [<condition>*] optional
> for example, when add or del a port p0, first we will send a monitor request
> like this:
> method="monitor",
> params=["Open_vSwitch",null,{"Port":{"columns":["bridges","fake_bridge","interfaces","name","tag"],"select":{"where":[["name","==","p0"]]}},"Interface":{"columns":["name","ofport","type"],"select":{"where":[["name","==","p0"]]}},"Bridge":{"columns":["controller","fail_mode","name"],"select":{"where":[["name","==","br0"]]}},"Controller":{"columns":[]},"Open_vSwitch":{"columns":["bridges","cur_cfg"]}}]
> then ovsdb-server should only reply with the specified record p0, so that we
> can save lots of time when monitoring.
> I have done a test with this method, with 4000 ports, the time consuming can
> be decreased from about 2800s to about 500s.
Sounds great, please submit patches when you have them ready.
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