On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 12:10 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/5/24 12:08, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > On 11/5/24 12:01, Ales Musil wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 11:47 AM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On 11/5/24 09:30, Ales Musil wrote:
> >>     > The ofproto/detrace command wouldn't output anything when the
> cache
> >>     > is empty. Add option to explicitly populate the cache when empty.
> >>
> >>     Hi, Ales.  Thanks for the patch!  But why is this needed?
> >>     The cache is only not available until the first revalidation
> >>     that should happen shortly after the flow installation.
> >>
> >>     I still think that practically revalidating the ukey from
> >>     a debug appctl is not a good thing to do.  So, I'd like to
> >>     avoid that, unless there is a good reason for doing so.
> >>
> >>     We may print a message that translation cache is not available
> >>     yet, if that's the concern.
> >>
> >>     Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Ilya,
> >>
> >> there are certain situations when there isn't any output
> >> but it would be nice to have one. The example that comes to
> >> my mind is arp sent from ovn-controller.
> >
> > Why do we have a datapath flow for a packet generated by the
> > controller?
>
> More importantly, why can't we wait half a second until the
> next revalidation?
>
> >
> >> I understand that it shouldn't
> >> be done all the time, but upon request it seems reasonable.
> >
> > The problem with this is if there is an option, users will use
> > it every time.
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ales
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Ales Musil
> >>
> >> Senior Software Engineer - OVN Core
> >>
> >> Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com>
> >>
> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>
> >> <https://red.ht/sig>
> >>
> >
>
>

After some offline discussion it seems the issue was
elsewhere. There is a wrong pmd_id default for kernel
DP. I'll send a fix for that, marking this as deffered then.

Thanks,
Ales

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Ales Musil

Senior Software Engineer - OVN Core

Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com>

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