Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> writes:

> On 11/11/21 19:06, Paolo Valerio wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> Chris Mi via dev <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> OVS_DP_F_UNALIGNED is already set, no need to set again. If restarting ovs,
>>> dp is already created. So dpif_netlink_dp_transact() will return EEXIST.
>>> No need to probe again.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Mi <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  lib/dpif-netlink.c | 3 +--
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/dpif-netlink.c b/lib/dpif-netlink.c
>>> index 5f4b60c5a..baa8e4d2a 100644
>>> --- a/lib/dpif-netlink.c
>>> +++ b/lib/dpif-netlink.c
>>> @@ -411,11 +411,10 @@ dpif_netlink_open(const struct dpif_class *class 
>>> OVS_UNUSED, const char *name,
>>>           * dispatching, we fall back to the per-vport dispatch mode.
>>>           */
>>>          dp_request.user_features &= ~OVS_DP_F_UNSUPPORTED;
>>> -        dp_request.user_features |= OVS_DP_F_UNALIGNED;
>>>          dp_request.user_features &= ~OVS_DP_F_VPORT_PIDS;
>>>          dp_request.user_features |= OVS_DP_F_DISPATCH_UPCALL_PER_CPU;
>>>          error = dpif_netlink_dp_transact(&dp_request, &dp, &buf);
>>> -        if (error) {
>>> +        if (error == EOPNOTSUPP) {
>>>              dp_request.user_features &= ~OVS_DP_F_DISPATCH_UPCALL_PER_CPU;
>>>              dp_request.user_features |= OVS_DP_F_VPORT_PIDS;
>>>              error = dpif_netlink_dp_transact(&dp_request, &dp, &buf);
>> 
>> The patch LGTM, there's a remark about this function, though.
>
> Paolo, should I consider this as 'Acked-by' ?
>

yes, sorry, I must have forgotten to add it.

Acked-by: Paolo Valerio <[email protected]>

>> 
>> Before [1] the datapath did not check what user_features were supported,
>> for this reason [2] was needed to avoid the case in which we set
>> OVS_DP_F_DISPATCH_UPCALL_PER_CPU on old kernels without supporting it.
>> 
>> I wonder what happens if, in case of kernel without [1] (prior to
>> 5.4), we try to create the datapath during a restart?
>> 
>> My impression is that we'll keep transacting receiving EEXIST, and only
>> after opening (without trying to create it) we set the things as we
>> intend.
>> 
>> This seems to be confirmed by:
>> 
>> ovs-vswitchd   834 [000]   146.180045: probe:ovs_dp_cmd_new__return: 
>> (ffffffffc075d290 <- ffffffffacba1a5a) retval=0xffffffef
>> ovs-vswitchd   834 [000]   146.180111: probe:ovs_dp_cmd_new__return: 
>> (ffffffffc075d290 <- ffffffffacba1a5a) retval=0xffffffef
>> ovs-vswitchd   834 [000]   146.180212: probe:ovs_dp_cmd_new__return: 
>> (ffffffffc075d290 <- ffffffffacba1a5a) retval=0xffffffef
>> 
>> Note that I didn't really test it against an old kernel, but I just
>> removed the user_features validation from the kernel code.
>> 
>> If confirmed, this is not a problem per se (there should not be a case
>> where this can become a functional problem), it's more about knowing that
>> there's this further chance to clean things up.
>> 
>> [1] 95a7233c452a ("net: openvswitch: Set OvS recirc_id from tc chain index")
>> [2] b841e3cd4a28 ("dpif-netlink: Fix feature negotiation for older kernels.")

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