Network is unstable between overcloud nodes and ovs-vswitchd consume much CPU after a deployment, update or upgrade
Issue
- After or while running
openstack overcloud deploy
,openstack overcloud update run
oropenstack overcloud upgrade run
, network connectivity is randomly broken between overcloud nodes
Ping between overcloud nodes doesn't work. Ping to some overcloud nodes works well, but ping to some other nodes doesn't work at all. -
ovs-vswitchd
process consumes CPU extremely# pidstat -p ALL -rudvwsRU --human -h Time USER PID %usr %system %guest %wait %CPU CPU ... 21:21:50 openvswitch 339639 3045.4% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 3047.1% 53 ... ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
-
The issue is solved for a few minutes by restarting openvswitch.
However, the issue recurs a few minutes later.
Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
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