On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:08 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:14:18PM +0530, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Numan Siddique <[email protected]> > > > > With this commit the users can override the default values of > > the BFD params - min_rx, min_tx, decay_min_rx and mult if desired. > > This can be useful to debug any issues related to BFD, like BFD > > state changes seen frequently. > > > > ovn-controller checks for the options 'ovn-bfd-min-rx', > > 'ovn-bfd-min-tx', 'ovn-bfd-decay-min-rx' and 'ovn-bfd-mult' in the > > external-ids of OpenvSwitch table row and configures these BFD > > values to the tunnel interfaces. > > > > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]> > > Thanks for working to make OVN better. > > If this is primarily a debugging interface, would it be better to use > ovs-appctl commands to adjust these values? > > For both purposes, customers with a busy or high latency network may eventually have issues with the defaults, for example, experiencing split brain situations: 2 chassis fighting for a router because they believe they are master (can't contact each other, but can contact a set of hypervisor chassis).
If this has uses outside of debugging, would it be better to make the > settings centrally configurable instead of via a local-only interface? > This is a good question, and IMHO it would be better to make it centrally configurable. Numan, what do you think? > > Thanks, > > Thank you Ben!, > Ben. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > -- Miguel Ángel Ajo OSP / Networking DFG, OVN Squad Engineering _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
