On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:23 PM Dumitru Ceara <dce...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:21 AM <nusid...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com>
> >
> > The commit [1] force drops all connections when the db read/write status
> changes.
> > Prior to the commit [1], when there was read/write status change, the
> existing
> > jsonrpc sessions with 'db_change_aware' set to true, were not updated
> with the
> > changed 'read_only' value. If the db status was changed to 'standby',
> the existing
> > clients could still write to the db.
> >
> > In the case of pacemaker OVN HA, OVN OCF script 'start' action starts the
> > ovsdb-servers in read-only state and later, it sets to read-write in the
> > 'promote' action. We have observed that if some ovn-controllers connect
> to
> > the SB ovsdb-server (in read-only state) just before the 'promote'
> action,
> > the connection is not reset all the times and these ovn-controllers
> remain connected
> > to the SB ovsdb-server in read-only state all the time. Even though
> > the commit [1] calls 'ovsdb_jsonrpc_server_reconnect()' with 'forced'
> flag
> > set to true when the db read/write status changes, somehow the FSM
> misses resetting
> > the connections of these ovn-controllers.
> >
> > I think this needs to be addressed in the FSM. This patch doesn't address
> > this FSM issue. Instead it changes the behavior of
> 'ovsdb_jsonrpc_server_set_read_only()'
> > by setting the 'read_only' flag of all the jsonrpc sessions instead of
> forcefully
> > resetting the connection.
> >
> > I think there is no need to reset the connection. In large scale
> production
> > deployements with OVN, this results in unnecessary waste of CPU cycles
> as ovn-controllers
> > will have to connect twice - once during 'start' action and again during
> 'promote'.
> >
> > [1] - 2a9679e3b2c6("ovsdb-server: drop all connections on read/write
> status change")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusid...@redhat.com>
>
> Hi Numan,
>
> The code looks good to me, just a minor comment below.
>
> Thanks,
> Dumitru
>
> > ---
> >  ovsdb/jsonrpc-server.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ovsdb/jsonrpc-server.c b/ovsdb/jsonrpc-server.c
> > index ddbbc2e94..066826959 100644
> > --- a/ovsdb/jsonrpc-server.c
> > +++ b/ovsdb/jsonrpc-server.c
> > @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ static void ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_unlock_all(struct
> ovsdb_jsonrpc_session *);
> >  static void ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_unlock__(struct ovsdb_lock_waiter *);
> >  static void ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_send(struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_session *,
> >                                         struct jsonrpc_msg *);
> > +static void ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_set_readonly_all(
> > +    struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_remote *remote, bool read_only);
> >
> >  /* Triggers. */
> >  static void ovsdb_jsonrpc_trigger_create(struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_session *,
> > @@ -365,10 +367,13 @@ ovsdb_jsonrpc_server_set_read_only(struct
> ovsdb_jsonrpc_server *svr,
> >  {
> >      if (svr->read_only != read_only) {
> >          svr->read_only = read_only;
> > -        ovsdb_jsonrpc_server_reconnect(svr, true,
> > -                                       xstrdup(read_only
> > -                                               ? "making server
> read-only"
> > -                                               : "making server
> read/write"));
> > +        struct shash_node *node;
> > +
> > +        SHASH_FOR_EACH (node, &svr->remotes) {
> > +            struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_remote *remote = node->data;
> > +
> > +            ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_set_readonly_all(remote, read_only);
> > +        }
> >      }
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -670,6 +675,17 @@ ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_reconnect_all(struct
> ovsdb_jsonrpc_remote *remote,
> >      }
> >  }
> >
> > +static void
> > +ovsdb_jsonrpc_session_set_readonly_all(struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_remote
> *remote,
> > +                                       bool read_only)
> > +{
> > +    struct ovsdb_jsonrpc_session *s, *next;
> > +
> > +    LIST_FOR_EACH_SAFE (s, next, node, &remote->sessions) {
>
> LIST_FOR_EACH should be enough here.
>
>
Thanks for the review. Agree.
Sent v2.

Thanks
Numan


> > +        s->read_only = read_only;
> > +    }
> > +}
> > +
> >  /* Sets the options for all of the JSON-RPC sessions managed by
> 'remote' to
> >   * 'options'.
> >   *
> > --
> > 2.21.0
> >
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