On Fri, 2020-11-27 at 11:01 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:48:18PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Oz Shlomo <[email protected]>
> 
> Sorry for reviving this one, but seemed better for the context.
> 
> > A connection is represented by two 5-tuple entries, one for each
> > direction.
> > Currently, each direction allocates its own hw counter, which is
> > inefficient as ct aging is managed per connection.
> > 
> > Share the counter that was allocated for the original direction
> > with the
> > reverse direction.
> 
> Yes, aging is done per connection, but the stats are not. With this
> patch, with netperf TCP_RR test, I get this: (mangled for
> readability)
> 
> # grep 172.0.0.4 /proc/net/nf_conntrack
> ipv4     2 tcp      6
>   src=172.0.0.3 dst=172.0.0.4 sport=34018 dport=33396 packets=3941992
> bytes=264113427
>   src=172.0.0.4 dst=172.0.0.3 sport=33396 dport=34018 packets=4
> bytes=218 [HW_OFFLOAD]
>   mark=0 secctx=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 zone=0 use=3
> 
> while without it (594e31bceb + act_ct patch to enable it posted
> yesterday + revert), I get:
> 
> # grep 172.0.0.4 /proc/net/nf_conntrack
> ipv4     2 tcp      6
>   src=172.0.0.3 dst=172.0.0.4 sport=41856 dport=32776 packets=1876763
> bytes=125743084
>   src=172.0.0.4 dst=172.0.0.3 sport=32776 dport=41856 packets=1876761
> bytes=125742951 [HW_OFFLOAD]
>   mark=0 secctx=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 zone=0 use=3
> 
> The same is visible on 'ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-conntrack -s' then.
> Summing both directions in one like this is at least very misleading.
> Seems this change was motivated only by hw resources constrains. That
> said, I'm wondering, can this change be reverted somehow?
> 
>   Marcelo

Hi Marcelo, thanks for the report, 
Sorry i am not familiar with this /procfs
Oz, Ariel, Roi, what is your take on this, it seems that we changed the
behavior of stats incorrectly.

Thanks,
Saeed.


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