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Hi,

Consider the triggering of restart agent, I think it's nothing but:
1). only restart agent
2). reboot the host that agent deployed on

When the agent started, the ovs may:
a.have all correct flows
b.have nothing at all
c.have partly correct flows, the others may need to be reprogrammed,
deleted or added

In any case, I think both user and developer would happy to see that the
system recovery ASAP after agent restarting. The best is agent only push
those incorrect flows, but keep the correct ones. This can ensure those
business with correct flows working during agent starting.

So, I suggest two solutions:
1.Agent gets all flows from ovs and compare with its local flows after
restarting. And agent only corrects the different ones.
2.Adapt ovs and agent. Agent just push all(not remove) flows every time and
ovs prepares two tables for flows switch(like RCU lock).

1 is recommended because of the 3rd vendors.

BR,
Germy


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:

> On 10/29/2014 10:17 AM, Kyle Mestery wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Hly <henry4hly at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> On 2014-10-29, at 下午8:01, Robert van Leeuwen <
> Robert.vanLeeuwen at spilgames.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> I find our current design is remove all flows then add flow by
> entry, this
> >>>>> will cause every network node will break off all tunnels between
> other
> >>>>> network node and all compute node.
> >>>> Perhaps a way around this would be to add a flag on agent startup
> >>>> which would have it skip reprogramming flows. This could be used for
> >>>> the upgrade case.
> >>>
> >>> I hit the same issue last week and filed a bug here:
> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1383674
> >>>
> >>> From an operators perspective this is VERY annoying since you also
> cannot push any config changes that requires/triggers a restart of the
> agent.
> >>> e.g. something simple like changing a log setting becomes a hassle.
> >>> I would prefer the default behaviour to be to not clear the flows or
> at the least an config option to disable it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> +1, we also suffered from this even when a very little patch is done
> >>
> > I'd really like to get some input from the tripleo folks, because they
> > were the ones who filed the original bug here and were hit by the
> > agent NOT reprogramming flows on agent restart. It does seem fairly
> > obvious that adding an option around this would be a good way forward,
> > however.
>
> Since nobody else has commented, I'll put in my two cents (though I
> might be overcharging you ;-).  I've also added the TripleO tag to the
> subject, although with Summit coming up I don't know if that will help.
>
> Anyway, if the bug you're referring to is the one I think, then our
> issue was just with the flows not existing.  I don't think we care
> whether they get reprogrammed on agent restart or not as long as they
> somehow come into existence at some point.
>
> It's possible I'm wrong about that, and probably the best person to talk
> to would be Robert Collins since I think he's the one who actually
> tracked down the problem in the first place.
>
> -Ben
>
>
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