[rdo-list] OVS 2.8 in CentOS SIGs WAS Re: OVS 2.7 on rdo

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
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>> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Alan Pevec <apevec at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> >> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Alan,
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>> >> > OVS 2.8 is now availalbe [1] and we would like to have it in RDO.
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>> >> > Is it possible to have the OVS 2.8 rpms in candidate repo. I will
>> >> > update
>> >> > the
>> >> > patch [2] and make sure it passes so that we don't see any
>> >> > regressions
>> >> > during update.
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>> >> > [1] -
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>> >> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2017-September/045235.html
>> >> > [2] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/473191/
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>> >> Hi Numan,
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>> >> I've rebased two patches we have in RDO [3] rebuilds, on top of
>> >> Timothy's Fedora 28 RPM [4] and it almost worked, only ppc64le arch
>> >> build [5] failed with:
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>> >> /builddir/build/BUILD/openvswitch-2.8.0/dpdk-stable-17.05.1/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-gcc/lib/librte_eal.a(eal_common_options.o):
>> >> In function `eal_plugins_init':
>> >> |
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>> >> /builddir/build/BUILD/openvswitch-2.8.0/dpdk-stable-17.05.1/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c:240:
>> >> undefined reference to `dlopen'
>> >> |
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>> >> /builddir/build/BUILD/openvswitch-2.8.0/dpdk-stable-17.05.1/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c:242:
>> >> undefined reference to `dlerror'
>> >> | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
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>> >> ppc64le folks, please help!
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>> > Thanks Alan. Hope the build would be resolved soon.
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>> I looked at this briefly.  The compile error is odd, but we wouldn't
>> even hit that if the initial testcase run completed successfully.
>> There are two unexpected failures:
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>> 2355: ovn -- dns lookup : 1 HV, 2 LS, 2 LSPs/LS       FAILED (ovn.at:6812)
>> 2364: ovn -- ensure one gw controller restart in HA doesn't bounce the
>> master FAILED (ovn.at:8480)
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> This is odd. Are the tests failing consistently ? I will have a look.

I have no idea.  Has anyone tried rebuilds?  Timothy noted that this
package build successfully for ppc64le in Fedora, so the tests passed
there.  He's also going to update the rawhide package to use
dpdk-stable-17.05.2, but I didn't immediately see anything in .2 that
would speak to this.

josh