On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 4:54 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>

Thanks for the patch.

Acked-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>

Numan

> ---
>  Documentation/tutorials/ddlog-new-feature.rst | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
>  northd/lswitch.dl                             | 12 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/tutorials/ddlog-new-feature.rst 
> b/Documentation/tutorials/ddlog-new-feature.rst
> index 02876db66d74..de66ca5ada5c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/tutorials/ddlog-new-feature.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/tutorials/ddlog-new-feature.rst
> @@ -252,6 +252,37 @@ corresponding DDlog operations that need to be performed 
> are:
>  At this point we have all the feature configuration relevant
>  information stored in DDlog relations in ``ovn-northd-ddlog`` memory.
>
> +Pitfalls of projections
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +A projection is a join that uses only some of the data in a record.
> +When the fields that are used have duplicates, the result can be many
> +"copies" of a record, which DDlog represents internally with an
> +integer "weight" that counts the number of copies.  We don't have a
> +projection with duplicates in this example, but `lswitch.dl` has many
> +of them, such as this one::
> +
> +    relation LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls: uuid, has_acls: bool)
> +
> +    LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls, true) :-
> +        LogicalSwitchACL(ls, _).
> +
> +    LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls, false) :-
> +        nb::Logical_Switch(._uuid = ls),
> +        not LogicalSwitchACL(ls, _).
> +
> +When multiple projections get joined together, the weights can
> +overflow, which causes DDlog to malfunction.  The solution is to make
> +the relation an output relation, which causes DDlog to filter it
> +through a "distinct" operator that reduces the weights to 1.  Thus,
> +`LogicalSwitchHasACLs` is actually implemented this way::
> +
> +    output relation LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls: uuid, has_acls: bool)
> +
> +For more information, see `Avoiding weight overflow
> +<https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog/blob/master/doc/tutorial/tutorial.md#avoiding-weight-overflow>`_
> +in the DDlog tutorial.
> +
>  Write rules to update output relations
>  --------------------------------------
>
> diff --git a/northd/lswitch.dl b/northd/lswitch.dl
> index 8fbb313b9666..b98a9ea04c3c 100644
> --- a/northd/lswitch.dl
> +++ b/northd/lswitch.dl
> @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ LogicalSwitchPortWithUnknownAddress(ls_uuid, lsp_uuid) :-
>      lsp in nb::Logical_Switch_Port(._uuid = lsp_uuid),
>      lsp.is_enabled() and lsp.addresses.contains("unknown").
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasUnknownPorts(ls: uuid, has_unknown: bool)
>  LogicalSwitchHasUnknownPorts(ls, true) :- 
> LogicalSwitchPortWithUnknownAddress(ls, _).
>  LogicalSwitchHasUnknownPorts(ls, false) :-
> @@ -116,6 +118,8 @@ LogicalSwitchStatefulACL(ls, acl) :-
>      LogicalSwitchACL(ls, acl),
>      nb::ACL(._uuid = acl, .action = "allow-related").
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasStatefulACL(ls: uuid, has_stateful_acl: bool)
>
>  LogicalSwitchHasStatefulACL(ls, true) :-
> @@ -125,6 +129,8 @@ LogicalSwitchHasStatefulACL(ls, false) :-
>      nb::Logical_Switch(._uuid = ls),
>      not LogicalSwitchStatefulACL(ls, _).
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls: uuid, has_acls: bool)
>
>  LogicalSwitchHasACLs(ls, true) :-
> @@ -170,6 +176,8 @@ LogicalSwitchWithDNSRecords(ls) :-
>      nb::DNS(._uuid = dns_uuid, .records = records),
>      not records.is_empty().
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasDNSRecords(ls: uuid, has_dns_records: bool)
>
>  LogicalSwitchHasDNSRecords(ls, true) :-
> @@ -186,6 +194,8 @@ LogicalSwitchHasNonRouterPort0(ls_uuid) :-
>      lsp in nb::Logical_Switch_Port(._uuid = lsp_uuid),
>      lsp.__type != "router".
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasNonRouterPort(ls: uuid, has_non_router_port: 
> bool)
>  LogicalSwitchHasNonRouterPort(ls, true) :-
>      LogicalSwitchHasNonRouterPort0(ls).
> @@ -285,6 +295,8 @@ SwitchLBVIP(sw_uuid, lb, vip, backends) :-
>      var kv = FlatMap(vips),
>      (var vip, var backends) = kv.
>
> +# "Pitfalls of projections" in ddlog-new-feature.rst explains why this
> +# is an output relation:
>  output relation LogicalSwitchHasLBVIP(sw_uuid: uuid, has_lb_vip: bool)
>  LogicalSwitchHasLBVIP(sw_uuid, true) :-
>      SwitchLBVIP(.sw_uuid = sw_uuid).
> --
> 2.31.1
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