Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

Hi Frederic

The current bf-forwarder code generates these persistent errors (every
5 seconds) in bf_switchd:

Feb 15 12:14:22 spare-PB1 bf_switchd[26808]: 2022-02-15 12:14:22.995012 ERROR 
 (BF_BFRT:(file=null):(func=null):0) - server_op_cb:151 Unable to retrieve 
bound_program data for client with id 3
Feb 15 12:14:27 spare-PB1 bf_switchd[26808]: 2022-02-15 12:14:27.944791 ERROR 
 (BF_BFRT:(file=null):(func=null):0) - tableOperationWaitForCompletion:3374 
Timed out waiting for completion of operation for table -2081122291

It appears that this error is caused by

        tbl_stats_in.operations_execute(self.bfgc.target, 
'Sync',p4_name=self.bfgc.p4_name)
        tbl_stats_out.operations_execute(self.bfgc.target, 
'Sync',p4_name=self.bfgc.p4_name)
        tbl_stats_pkt_out.operations_execute(self.bfgc.target, 
'Sync',p4_name=self.bfgc.p4_name)

in rare/bf_subifcounter/__init__.py. I'm not familiar with
operations_execute() but I'm a bit confused by the fact that these
objects are not tables but indirect counters.  Does
operations_execute() apply to counters too?

Also, what would be the benefit of the Sync operation compared to
using "from_hw = True" when reading the counters?

-- 
Alex