We adopted OVS 1.4.3 few weeks ago into XCP 1.1.

No crashes (related to OVS) detected up to now in very large installation, and old ugly bug with slowly bloating ovs-vswitchd gone.

We done that process in very slow manner (all hosts was upgraded within about 6 weeks after 2 week test run on single host and prior lab testing for about 4 weeks).

Bugs or non-trivial staff found:

1) new ovs do have new policy for MTU handling. Native ovs from XCP 1.1 when found ethX interface unable to change MTU to jumbo sizes, fall back to original MTU for bridge itself. New OVS now spamming in dmesg (or messages?) about this, but did not change. 2) It contains new script ovs-vlan-bug-workaround, which failing on default xs kernel. And our tests shows that OVS is incompatible with vanilla (upstream) version of ixgbe driver and VLAN's (we using vanilla instead instead XCP's one).
3) message

Nov 08 02:00:15|72792|netdev|WARN|failed to get flags for network device vif75.0: No such device

starts to appear in vswitch's log. Still under research, seems be some /etc/xensource/scripts/vif lines are executed for already dead vif (no problem so on).


On 07.11.2012 21:24, Jesse Gross wrote:
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:58 AM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I've updated OVS on XCP-1.1 to OVS-1.4.2.
    I notice random kernel crashes.

    Questions:
    - Is that simply a bug of 1.4.2 or is there a version limit
    regarding the xcp kernel (e.g. not higher than 1.0.2)?
    - Which ovs version is recommended if someone likes to upgrade?


I would try 1.4.3. There's a bug fix in there that seems very likely to be the cause of your problem. You could also go to 1.7.1.


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