Sure its just a helpful information and not a major design change too.
Hence, it wouldn't impact to have this change. :)


On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:45:44AM -0800, Ali Gin wrote:
> > > On 01/19/2018 11:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > >From: aginwala <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > >e.g. when running ovn-nbctl show ls, it's good to have total ports
> that
> > are
> > > >attached to the switch.
> > > >
> > > >Signed-off-by: Aliasgar Ginwala <[email protected]>
> > > >---
> > > >  ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.c |  1 +
> > > >  tests/ovn-nbctl.at        | 10 ++++++----
> > > >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > >diff --git a/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.c b/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.c
> > > >index c9aa2fe..0f1e952 100644
> > > >--- a/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.c
> > > >+++ b/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.c
> > > >@@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ print_ls(const struct nbrec_logical_switch *ls,
> > struct ds *s)
> > > >              ds_put_format(s, "        router-port: %s\n",
> router_port);
> > > >          }
> > > >      }
> > > >+    ds_put_format(s, "total_ports_on_switch: %u\n", ls->n_ports);
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > I think the wording here is a bit strange when compared to other output
> > from
> > > `ovn-nbctl show`. I think something like "total ports" instead of
> > > "total_ports_on_switch" would be more consistent.
> > >
> > > I also think that if you're adding this for logical switches, you
> should
> > do
> > > the same for logical routers.
> >
> > >>In addition, I don't understand why this is valuable information to
> > show.
> >
> > I was keeping it total_ports but that was confusing as it seems all
> ports.
> > Hence I chose total_ports_per_switch. I can add the same for routers
> too.We
> > added this because when we have many ports on a switch it's easy to say
> > from count that we have n ports on the switch. During scale test we found
> > this information useful because by looking at the total_ports_on_switch
> we
> > can also assure that the count on the chassis matches the count on the
> > controller as a quick scan too.
> > Let me know further.
>
> To me, this sounds like a pretty specialized use for something that
> would go in the output for every user all the time.  I think that you
> could get something similar with "ovn-nbctl lsp-list <switch> | wc -l".
>
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