I believe northbound database is the right place although it adds a change to ovn-northd, but it's more natural, and in such way the admin would not need to do this chassis by chassis, something specially important since those can be dynamically added.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 9:58 AM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:53 PM Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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 for the review comments. I agree. I am not very sure at this moment > if having it in NB DB is better or SB DB. > Having it in SB DB avoids ovn-northd to monitor NB DB and put it in SB DB. > And CMS can configure these values > directly in SB DB. > > Thoughts on this ? > > Thanks > Numan > > >> >>> >>> 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 >> > -- Miguel Ángel Ajo OSP / Networking DFG, OVN Squad Engineering _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
