On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 5:42 PM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 4:27 PM Mark Michelson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Numan,
>>
>> I've taken a close look at the patches in this series, and they seem
>> really good. They're very well commented and well tested as well. It's
>> quite easy to follow the change, and I couldn't find any flaws in my
>> review.
>>
>> However, I do want to double-check that this does not put unnecessary
>> load on ovn-controller. I suspect it won't be much of a problem since
>>
>> 1) The port security flows are calculated incrementally.
>> 2) The reduced SB DB size likely lessens the overall load on
>> ovn-controller .
>> 3) The removed port security logical flows means there is less parsing
>> of logical flows per iteration of ovn-controller.
>>
>> However, this does add new OF flow creation in ovn-controller, so it's
>> worth checking to make sure ovn-controller does not see any noticeable
>> performance decrease.
>>
>> If we can get confirmation, then I'll ack the series.
>>
>
> Thanks Mark for the reviews.
>
> Sure.  I'll do some tests and share the results.
>

I did some testing and these are the findings.

1.  I started 2 separate ovn-central components, one on central-1 with OVN
main commit (as of today's)
    and the other on central-2 node with OVN main + these port security
patches.
     Same OVN databases on both the nodes.

    central-1 SB DB has 208962 logical flows
    central-2 SB DB (with port sec patches) has 84294 logical flows.

2.  Started 2 separate compute nodes - compute-1 (with ovn main
ovn-controller) and compute-2 (with ovn main + port sec ovn-controller)
     Created around 1000 ovs ports on compute-1 and copied the conf.db to
compute-2 - so that both the ovn-controllers claim the same logical ports.

3.  After both the ovn-controllers settle down.  I triggered recompute
multiple times.   This recompute will generate all the openflows (but
ofcourse will not program ovs-vswitchd)
   compute-1 ovn-controller takes around 3100 ms to complete the loop.  I
see unreasonable long poll interval message and compute-2 ovn-controller
takes around 1500ms to
   complete the loop.


I think these patches also help ovn-controller as it has to do less logical
flow processing.

Below is the stopwatch/show for compute-1 ovn-controller

[root@ovn-chassis-1 data]# ovn-appctl -t ovn-controller stopwatch/show
flow-generation
Statistics for 'flow-generation'
  Total samples: 679
  Maximum: 3435 msec
  Minimum: 0 msec
  95th percentile: 32.512116 msec
  Short term average: 15.137543 msec
  Long term average: 109.403161 msec

And below is the same for compute-2 ovn-controller

[root@ovn-chassis-2 /]#  ovn-appctl -t ovn-controller stopwatch/show
flow-generation
Statistics for 'flow-generation'
  Total samples: 700
  Maximum: 1341 msec
  Minimum: 0 msec
  95th percentile: 2.987580 msec
  Short term average: 0.000000 msec
  Long term average: 24.980349 msec


Thanks
Numan



> Numan
>
>>
>> On 5/12/22 20:42, [email protected] wrote:
>> > From: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > This patch series adds generic logical flows for port security in
>> > the logical switch pipeline and pushes the actual port security
>> > implementation logic to ovn-controller from ovn-northd.
>> >
>> > ovn-northd will now add logical flows like:
>> >
>> > table=0 (ls_in_check_port_sec), priority=50   , match=(1),
>> action=(reg0[14] = check_in_port_sec(); next;)
>> > table=1 (ls_in_apply_port_sec), priority=50   , match=(reg0[14] == 1),
>> action=(drop;)
>> > table=1 (ls_in_apply_port_sec), priority=0    , match=(1),
>> action=(next;)
>> >
>> > OVN action check_in_port_sec() resubmits the packet to openflow table
>> > 73.  ovn-controller will add port security flows in table 73,74 and 75
>> > for all the logical ports it has claimed.  The port security information
>> > is passed down the Port_Binding table in Southbound database.
>> >
>> > The main motivation for the patch is to address scale concerns.
>> > This patch series reduces the number of logical flows and ovn-northd
>> > CPU utilization time.
>> >
>> > Did some scale testing and below are the results:
>> >
>> > Used a Northbound database from a deployment of 120 node cluster.
>> > Number of logical switch ports with port security configured: 13711
>> >
>> > With vanilla ovn-northd
>> > -----------------------
>> > Number of logical flows : 208061
>> > Avg time taken to run build_lflows() : 1301 msec
>> > Size of Southbound database after compaction: 104M
>> >
>> > With ovn-northd using this feature
>> > ---------------------------------
>> > Number of logical flows : 83396
>> > Avg time taken to run build_lflows() : 560  msec
>> > Size of Southbound database after compaction: 45M
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Numan Siddique (3):
>> >    ovn-controller: Add OF rules for port security.
>> >    actions: Add new actions check_in_port_sec and check_out_port_sec.
>> >    northd: Add generic port security logical flows.
>> >
>> >   controller/binding.c         |  78 +++-
>> >   controller/binding.h         |  23 +-
>> >   controller/lflow.c           | 792 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> >   controller/lflow.h           |   4 +
>> >   controller/ovn-controller.c  |  21 +-
>> >   include/ovn/actions.h        |   6 +
>> >   include/ovn/logical-fields.h |   1 +
>> >   lib/actions.c                |  75 +++-
>> >   northd/northd.c              | 557 +++++-------------------
>> >   northd/ovn-northd.8.xml      | 263 ++++++------
>> >   ovn-sb.ovsschema             |   7 +-
>> >   ovn-sb.xml                   |  54 +++
>> >   tests/ovn-northd.at          | 431 ++++++++++++-------
>> >   tests/ovn.at                 | 369 ++++++++++++++--
>> >   tests/test-ovn.c             |   2 +
>> >   utilities/ovn-trace.c        | 313 ++++++++++++++
>> >   16 files changed, 2175 insertions(+), 821 deletions(-)
>> >
>>
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