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Bug 1843874

Summary: [RFE] ovsdb-server: Explore memory consumption reduction by shrinking unused space in hash maps
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath Reporter: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets>
Component: OVNAssignee: OVN Team <ovnteam>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jianlin Shi <jishi>
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Version: FDP 20.CCC: ctrautma
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Description Ilya Maximets 2020-06-04 11:10:23 UTC 
ovsdb-server uses a lot of hash maps, but it never actually calls
hmap_shrink().  For example, if we will create a lot of logical switches
and ports for some special case and than remove all of them, ovsdb-server
will not return consumed memory to the system.

We need to explore how much memory we could save in such case and actually
shrink hash maps if needed.  'table->rows' might be a good candidate.

For the reference, concurrent hash maps in OVS (cmap) shrinks automatically if
memory usage is below than 20% of allocated space.  We might consider similar
approach.
Comment 1 OVN Bot 2024-02-14 21:10:59 UTC 
This issue is being closed as an automatic process due to the issue's age. If you wish to re-open this issue, please do so in Jira (https://issues.redhat.com) in the 'FDP' project. Please be sure to set the component to the latest OVN version where this issue is known to occur. If this is a feature request or improvement, please set the component to 'OVN'.