On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:51 PM Winson Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello OVN Experts:
>
> With large scale ovn-k8s cluster,  there are several conditions that would
> make ovn-controller clients connect SB central from a balanced state to
> an unbalanced state.
> Is there an ongoing project to address this problem?
> If not,  I have one proposal not sure if it is doable.
> Please share your thoughts.
>
> The issue:
>
> OVN SB RAFT 3 node cluster,  at first all the ovn-controller clients will
> connect all the 3 nodes in a balanced state.
>
> The following conditions will make the connections become unbalanced.
>
>    -
>
>    One RAFT node restart,  all the ovn-controller clients to reconnect to
>    the two remaining cluster nodes.
>
>
>    -
>
>    Ovn-k8s,  after SB raft pods rolling upgrade, the last raft pod has no
>    client connections.
>
>
> RAFT clients in an unbalanced state would trigger more stress to the raft
> cluster,  which makes the raft unstable under stress compared to a balanced
> state.
> The proposal solution:
>
> Ovn-controller adds next unix commands “reconnect” with argument of
> preferred SB node IP.
>
> When unbalanced state happens,  the UNIX command can trigger
> ovn-controller reconnect
>
> To new SB raft node with fast sync which doesn’t trigger the whole DB
> downloading process.
>
>
Thanks Winson. The proposal sounds good to me. Will you implement it?

Han



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