On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:41:05AM +0800, solomon wrote:
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:16:18PM +0800, Li Wei wrote:
> >>
> >> After inserting/removing a bucket, we don't update the bucket counter.
> >> When we call ovs-ofctl dump-group-stats br-int, a panic happened.
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch!  It looks correct to me.  Thank you for adding a
> > test, too.
> > 
> > I took a closer look and I saw that 'n_buckets' is not very useful,
> > because it is only used in cases where the code is already
> > O(n_buckets).  I think that we can just remove it.  Then it cannot get
> > out-of-sync.  What do you think of this variation of your patch?
> 
> 
> ovs_list_size() will traversing the list to get the total length.
> 
> In our custom scheduling algorithms (eg wrr, least-connection), 
> we need to know the total number of buckets before traversing the bucket list 
> to hit target bucket. 
> so, it is traversed twice.
> 
> If the number of buckets reaches 100+, there are tens of thousands of groups, 
> don't this modification affect performance?
> 
> I hope to keep n_buckets in struct ofgroup.

OK.

I applied the original to master and backported as far as branch-2.6.
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