On 30.01.24 10:44, Simon Horman wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Ilya,
can we include this patch in 3.3, please?

It is required for more complex setups like OKD/OpenShift with userspace 
datapaths.

Best,
Jakob

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