On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Previously when a flow was attempted to be offloaded, if it
> could not be offloaded and did not return an actions error,
> a warning was logged.
>
> The reason there was an exception for an actions error was to allow
> for failure for full offload of a flow because it will fallback to
> partial offload. There are some issues with this approach to logging.
>
> Some NICs do not specify an actions error, because other config in
> the NIC may be checked first. e.g. In the case of Mellanox CX-5,
> there can be different types of offload configured, so an unspecified
> error may be returned.
>
> More generally, enabling hw-offload is best effort per datapath/NIC/flow
> as full and partial offload support in NICs is variable and there is
> always fallback to software.
>
> So there is likely to be repeated logging about offloading of flows
> failing. With this in mind, change the log level to debug.
>
> The status of the offload can still be seen with below command:
> $ ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows -m
> ... offloaded:partial ...
>
> Also, remove some duplicated rate limiting and tidy-up the succeed
> and failure logs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> v2: combined logs on failure and added confirmation of result on
> succeed.
> ---
>  lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c | 23 +++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> index 623005b1c..342292d23 100644
> --- a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> +++ b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk.c
> @@ -920,22 +920,17 @@ netdev_offload_dpdk_flow_create(struct netdev *netdev,
>              dump_flow(&s, &s_extra, attr, flow_patterns, flow_actions);
>              extra_str = ds_cstr(&s_extra);
> -            VLOG_DBG_RL(&rl, "%s: rte_flow 0x%"PRIxPTR" %s  flow create %d 
> %s",
> -                        netdev_get_name(netdev), (intptr_t) flow, extra_str,
> -                        netdev_dpdk_get_port_id(netdev), ds_cstr(&s));
> +            VLOG_DBG("%s: rte_flow creation succeeded: rte_flow 0x%"PRIxPTR" 
> "
> +                     "%s  flow create %d %s", netdev_get_name(netdev),
> +                     (intptr_t) flow, extra_str,
> +                     netdev_dpdk_get_port_id(netdev), ds_cstr(&s));
>          }
>      } else {
> -        enum vlog_level level = VLL_WARN;
> -
> -        if (error->type == RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION) {
> -            level = VLL_DBG;
> -        }
> -        VLOG_RL(&rl, level, "%s: rte_flow creation failed: %d (%s).",
> -                netdev_get_name(netdev), error->type, error->message);
> -        if (!vlog_should_drop(&this_module, level, &rl)) {
> +        if (!VLOG_DROP_DBG(&rl)) {
>              dump_flow(&s, &s_extra, attr, flow_patterns, flow_actions);
>              extra_str = ds_cstr(&s_extra);
> -            VLOG_RL(&rl, level, "%s: Failed flow: %s  flow create %d %s",
> -                    netdev_get_name(netdev), extra_str,
> -                    netdev_dpdk_get_port_id(netdev), ds_cstr(&s));
> +            VLOG_DBG("%s: rte_flow creation failed [%d (%s)]: "
> +                     "%s  flow create %d %s", netdev_get_name(netdev),
> +                     error->type, error->message,extra_str,

Nit: I think an extra space is missing before extra_str.


> +                     netdev_dpdk_get_port_id(netdev), ds_cstr(&s));
>          }
>      }
> --
> 2.46.0
>

Reviewed-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>


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David Marchand

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