On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:54 AM Han Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM Ihar Hrachyshka <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:19 AM Han Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:15 PM Ihar Hrachyshka <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
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> > > > Hi Han,
> > > >
> > > > thanks a lot for the review! I addressed most comments below, listing
> > > > here the questions not immediately addressed in the next version I am
> > > > about to push:
> > > >
> > > > 1. why is file_system_id array static? there are drawbacks in
> > > > switching it to local: we would need to do a lot more xstrdup / free
> > > > work in multiple places. But it's doable.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your explanation. Static makes sense.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 2. the confusion between system-id (OVN) and system-id.conf (OVS) file
> > > > names. Should we rename the former into e.g.
> > > > $ovsconfdir/ovn-chassis-name-override or something along these lines?
> > > >
> > >
> > > ovn-chassis-name-override sounds good to me. Since it is for OVN only, I 
> > > think it is better to put in OVN's config dir.
> >
> > Ack. You mean $ovn_sysconfdir/ovn? (/etc/ovn/)
> >
> Yes.
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> > > However, I just realized another problem related to the use of the file. 
> > > Since it is a new input to the I-P engine, we will have to add a node to 
> > > the engine with the only data being the ID read from the file. We will 
> > > also track the old ID, and in its run() function we will check if the ID 
> > > is changed, and then trigger engine compute for all the nodes that depend 
> > > on it. Otherwise, changing the ID in the file won't get enforced by the 
> > > I-P engine. Sorry that I didn't thought about this in my previous review.
> >
> > I appreciate the request, just tested and indeed it doesn't (always)
> > work as one could expect assuming the file can be changed in runtime.
> > I am happy to fix this. For that though, I may need some more time
> > than a couple of hours (need to understand the I-P machinery first,
> > which I haven't touched yet). Is it possible that we e.g. mark the
> > limitation in documentation and in release notes and follow up with a
> > backportable bug fix for that? Let me know.
> >
> If changing it at runtime is not required, we don't have to implement the I-P 
> node now, as long as it is documented. And we can add the support changing it 
> at runtime later (but I hope it doesn't have to be backported if it is not a 
> bug fix).
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> However, I guess the current behavior is not consistent, because when 
> recompute is triggered on en_runtime_data, the new file content would take 
> effect, which may confuse user because they can't predict when the change 
> will take effect. It would be better to make it either taking effect 
> immediately, or never. If we choose the latter, we can simply perform the 
> reading of the file only once at initialization, and don't re-read it in 
> get_ovs_chassis_id().

That's fair. I've done just that since I-P mechanism is not obvious
since when chassis is changed, a lot of cleanup steps should happen,
like changing ownership for patch ports, creating new chassis records,
removing old, etc. I've sent a patch with the approach above.

>
> Thanks,
> Han
>

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