On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 02:24:51PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Jakob Meng <[email protected]>
> 
> In a scenario where OVN does load balancing and then SNAT with a OVS
> userspace datapath [0], the recirc_depth may be greater than 6. In
> that case, ovs-vswitchd might drop packets and raise warnings:
> 
>   dpif_netdev|WARN|Packet dropped. Max recirculation depth exceeded.
> 
> Increasing MAX_RECIRC_DEPTH to 8 solves this issue.
> 
> [0] 
> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/dd5cd73e3df1bfb1a215cb45d1e2e03eff1d049a/tests/system-ovn-kmod.at#L740
> 
> Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-251
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Meng <[email protected]>

Hi Jakob,

I'm unsure what the considerations were when setting this limit,
but I do note that it was increased once before, from 5 to 6,
for an OVN use-case [1]. So this approach seems reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>

[1] dpif-netdev: Set MAX_RECIRC_DEPTH to 6.
    https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/3f9d3836d63a
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