OVN: ovnmeta namespaces missing during scalability test causing DHCP issues
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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neutron |
In Progress
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High
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Lucas Alvares Gomes |
Bug Description
Reported at: https:/
During a scalability test it was noted that a few VMs where having issues being pinged (2 out of ~5000 VMs in the test conducted). After some investigation it was found that the VMs in question did not receive a DHCP lease:
udhcpc: no lease, failing
FAIL
checking http://
failed 1/20: up 181.90. request failed
And the ovnmeta- namespaces for the networks that the VMs was booting from were missing. Looking into the ovn-metadata-
2023-04-18 06:56:09.864 353474 DEBUG neutron.
Apparently, when the system is under stress (scalability tests) there are some edge cases where the metadata port information has not yet being propagated by OVN to the Southbound database and when the PortBindingChas
Note that, running the same tests but with less concurrency did not trigger this issue. So only happens when the system is overloaded.
Changed in neutron: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Change abandoned by "Slawek Kaplonski <email address hidden>" on branch: master /review. opendev. org/c/openstack /neutron/ +/881487
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