Thanks for the review Eelco.

Regards
Anju

-----Original Message-----
From: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 1:23 PM
To: Anju Thomas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Rohith 
Basavaraja <[email protected]>; Keshav Gupta <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14] Improved Packet Drop Statistics in OVS



On 5 Nov 2019, at 5:35, Anju Thomas wrote:

> Currently OVS maintains explicit packet drop/error counters only on 
> port level. Packets that are dropped as part of normal OpenFlow 
> processing are counted in flow stats of “drop” flows or as table 
> misses in table stats. These can only be interpreted by controllers 
> that know the semantics of the configured OpenFlow pipeline.
> Without that knowledge, it is impossible for an OVS user to obtain 
> e.g. the total number of packets dropped due to OpenFlow rules.
>
> Furthermore, there are numerous other reasons for which packets can be 
> dropped by OVS slow path that are not related to the OpenFlow 
> pipeline.
> The generated datapath flow entries include a drop action to avoid 
> further expensive upcalls to the slow path, but subsequent packets 
> dropped by the datapath are not accounted anywhere.
>
> Finally, the datapath itself drops packets in certain error 
> situations.
> Also, these drops are today not accounted for.This makes it difficult 
> for OVS users to monitor packet drop in an OVS instance and to alert a 
> management system in case of a unexpected increase of such drops.
> Also OVS trouble-shooters face difficulties in analysing packet drops.
>
> With this patch we implement following changes to address the issues 
> mentioned above.
>
> 1. Identify and account all the silent packet drop scenarios
>
> 2. Display these drops in ovs-appctl coverage/show
>
> Co-authored-by: Rohith Basavaraja <[email protected]>
> Co-authored-by: Keshav Gupta <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Anju Thomas <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rohith Basavaraja <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Keshav Gupta <[email protected]>

Thanks for following this trough! Did some quick sanity tests and based on my 
previous review of v13 and the diff to v14 it looks good to me!

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>

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