On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:53 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 08:04:09PM +0530, nusid...@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com>
> >
> > 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
> > frequent BFD state changes).
> >
> > A new column 'options' is added in NB_Global and SB_Global tables
> > of OVN_Northbound and OVN_Southbound schemas respectively. CMS
> > can define the options 'bfd:min-rx', 'bfd:min-tx',
> > 'bfd:decay-min-rx' and 'bfd:mult' in the options column of
> > NB_Global table row. ovn-northd copies these options from
> > NB_Global to SB_Global. ovn-controller configures these
> > options to the tunnel interfaces when enabling BFD.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com>
>
> Thank you for working to make OVN easier to debug and troubleshoot.
>
> Using : in the bfd option names makes it difficult to set them using
> ovn-nbctl.  It is necessary to understand how to escape the :, as shown
> in the test, e.g.:
>
>     ovn-nbctl --wait=hv set NB_Global . options:"bfd\:min-rx"=2000
>
> Do you think it would be a good idea to use - instead of : for this
> reason?
>
>
Thanks for the review. I agree. I changed it to '-' in v6.


> When bfd_run() decides to disable bfd on an interface, it looks like it
> will still add any user-specified BFD settings.  Is that intentional?
>
>
It was intentional. But I think it's better to clear the bfd column instead
of setting "enabled=false" and having the rest of the other bfd options.

I updated the patch and submitted v6 with this -
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/981098/



> The function interface_set_bfd() is now trivial, so it might make sense
> to inline it into the caller.
>
>
Done.



> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
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