Re: [RTG-DIR] [mpls] Rtgdir last call review of draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-bfd-06

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Bruno,
thank you for your interest and the suggestion. BFD spec (RFC 5880)
includes the mechanism intended to avoid synchronization of BFD Control
messages:
   The periodic transmission of BFD Control packets MUST be jittered on
   a per-packet basis by up to 25%, that is, the interval MUST be
   reduced by a random value of 0 to 25%, in order to avoid self-
   synchronization with other systems on the same subnetwork.  Thus, the
   average interval between packets will be roughly 12.5% less than that
   negotiated.
Do you think that the same randomization mechanism applied to the
transmission of notifications to the root of p2mp LSP would be useful?

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:45 AM <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
>
>
> My 2 cents (not following the draft).
>
> Another typical option may be to allow the network operator to configure,
> on the egress, an acceptable delay before reporting to the root. The egress
> would then pick a random value in this range. Statically, the more egress
> the more spread the reports to the root, which a priori would be good for
> scaling.
>
> It would be up to the network operator to configure the right delay
> depending on the number of the leaves and the need for fast reporting (or
> not).
>
>
>
> Totally up to you, but that would have my vote as this is a typical issue.
> (granted this is more likely an issue with protocols handling thousands of
> customers, but even for MPLS LSR scaling, RSVP-TE scaling issues are not
> unheard)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --Bruno
>
>
>
> *From:* mpls <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of *Greg Mirsky
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 25, 2024 12:25 AM
> *To:* Joel Halpern <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [mpls] Rtgdir last call review of
> draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-bfd-06
>
>
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> thank you for the clarification. My idea is to use a rate limiter at the
> root of the p2mp LSP that may receive notifications from the leaves
> affected by the failure. I imagine that the threshold of the rate limiter
> might be exceeded and the notifications will be discarded. As a result,
> some notifications will be processed by the headend of the p2mp BFD session
> later, as the tails transmit notifications periodically until the receive
> the BFD Control message with the Final flag set.  Thus, we cannot avoid the
> congestion but mitigate the negative effect it might cause by extending the
> convergence. Does that make sense?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM Joel Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> That covers part of my concern.  But....  A failure near the root means
> that a lot of leaves will see failure, and they will all send notifications
> converging on the root.  Those notifications themselves, not just the final
> messages, seem able to cause congestion.  I am not sure what can be done
> about it, but we aren't allowed to ignore it.
>
> Yours,
>
> Joel
>
> On 2/24/2024 3:34 PM, Greg Mirsky wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> thank you for your support of this work and the suggestion. Would the
> following update of the last paragraph of Section 5 help:
>
> OLD TEXT:
>
>    An ingress LSR that has received the BFD Control packet, as described
>
>    above, sends the unicast IP/UDP encapsulated BFD Control packet with
>
>    the Final (F) bit set to the egress LSR.
>
> NEW TEXT:
>
>    As described above, an ingress LSR that has received the BFD Control
>
>    packet sends the unicast IP/UDP encapsulated BFD Control packet with
>
>    the Final (F) bit set to the egress LSR.  In some scenarios, e.g.,
>
>    when a p2mp LSP is broken close to its root, and the number of egress
>
>    LSRs is significantly large, the control plane of the ingress LSR
>
>    might be congested by the BFD Control packets transmitted by egress
>
>    LSRs and the process of generating unicast BFD Control packets, as
>
>    noted above.  To mitigate that, a BFD implementation that supports
>
>    this specification is RECOMMENDED to use a rate limiter of received
>
>    BFD Control packets passed to processing in the control plane of the
>
>    ingress LSR.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 4:10 PM Joel Halpern via Datatracker <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Reviewer: Joel Halpern
> Review result: Ready
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft.
> The
> Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related drafts
> as
> they pass through IETF last call and IESG review, and sometimes on special
> request. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to the Routing
> ADs.
> For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see
> https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/rtg/RtgDir
>
> Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it
> would
> be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last Call
> comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through discussion
> or by
> updating the draft.
>
> Document: draft-name-version
> Reviewer: your-name
> Review Date: date
> IETF LC End Date: date-if-known
> Intended Status: copy-from-I-D
>
> Summary:  This document is ready for publication as a Proposed Standard.
>     I do have one question that I would appreciate being considered.
>
> Comments:
>     The document is clear and readable, with careful references for those
>     needing additional details.
>
> Major Issues: None
>
> Minor Issues:
>     I note that the security considerations (section 6) does refer to
>     congestion issues caused by excessive transmission of BFD requests.   I
>     wonder if section 5 ("Operation of Multipoint BFD with Active Tail over
>     P2MP MPLS LSP") should include a discussion of the congestion
> implications
>     of multiple tails sending notifications at the rate of 1 per second to
> the
>     head end, particularly if the failure is near the head end.  While I
>     suspect that the 1 / second rate is low enough for this to be safe,
>     discussion in the document would be helpful.
>
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