Bug 2203811 - [OVN] Spam of "openvswitch: ovs-system: deferred action limit reached, drop recirc action" messages in controller logs [NEEDINFO]
Summary: [OVN] Spam of "openvswitch: ovs-system: deferred action limit reached, drop r...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovn-2021
Version: FDP 21.A
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Assignee: OVN Team
QA Contact: Jianlin Shi
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Reported: 2023-05-15 10:14 UTC by Alex Stupnikov
Modified: 2023-06-27 17:44 UTC (History)
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cylopez: needinfo? (ovnteam)


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Description Alex Stupnikov 2023-05-15 10:14:26 UTC
Description of problem:
While investigating performance problem for one of our VIP customers we found out that openvswitch sends numerous messages like [1] to /var/log/messages on controller nodes. Since controller nodes are not actually forwarding significant amount of traffic in customer's case (ML2/OVN with DVR), these messages doesn't seem to be a root cause of customer's issues.

At the same time OVN discussions like https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2021-August/051345.html makes me think that something is wrong and there is possible routing loop.

I am reporting this bugzilla to ask for your opinion about messages [1] and for your advice about next steps: logged messages look too generic for me and I am not sure how to identify OVN entities possibly affected by them.

[1]
May  2 04:18:05 HOSTNAME kernel: openvswitch: ovs-system: deferred action limit reached, drop recirc action


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat OpenStack Platform release 16.2.4

Additional info:
sosreports from controller nodes are attached to support case.

Comment 1 Alex Stupnikov 2023-05-15 12:54:11 UTC
We also have /var/lib/openvswitch/ovn/ folder from controller node attached to case.


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