frr: T6746: additional improvements after 10.2 upgrade (#4259)

* smoketest: T6746: add substring search in getFRRconfig()

Some daemons (e.g. bgpd) have several nested substrings/sections like

router bgp 100
 address-family ipv4 unicast
 ..
 exit-address-family
exit

We can now use getFRRconfig() with the substring option to extract only
 address-family ipv4 unicast
 ..
 exit-address-family

Making config validation more granular

* frrender: T6746: only re-render FRR config if config_dict did change

* frrender: T6746: fix naming glitch isis/eigrp

* frrender: T6746: add --stdout option when running with debug flags

* smoketest: T6746: remove unneeded commit_guard time

It was an invalid workarround as the underlaying issue seems to be a race
condition in CStore.

The commit process is not finished until all pending files from
VYATTA_CHANGES_ONLY_DIR are copied to VYATTA_ACTIVE_CONFIGURATION_DIR. This is
done inside libvyatta-cfg1 and the FUSE UnionFS part. On large non-interactive
commits FUSE UnionFS might not replicate the real state in time, leading to
errors when querying the working and effective configuration.

TO BE DELETED AFTER SWITCH TO IN MEMORY CONFIG

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/python/vyos/frrender.py b/python/vyos/frrender.py
index badc5d59f..776e893d9 100644
--- a/python/vyos/frrender.py
+++ b/python/vyos/frrender.py
@@ -218,11 +218,11 @@ def get_frrender_dict(conf, argv=None) -> dict:
     # values present on the CLI - that's why we have if conf.exists()
     eigrp_cli_path = ['protocols', 'eigrp']
     if conf.exists(eigrp_cli_path):
-        isis = conf.get_config_dict(eigrp_cli_path, key_mangling=('-', '_'),
-                                    get_first_key=True,
-                                    no_tag_node_value_mangle=True,
-                                    with_recursive_defaults=True)
-        dict.update({'eigrp' : isis})
+        eigrp = conf.get_config_dict(eigrp_cli_path, key_mangling=('-', '_'),
+                                     get_first_key=True,
+                                     no_tag_node_value_mangle=True,
+                                     with_recursive_defaults=True)
+        dict.update({'eigrp' : eigrp})
     elif conf.exists_effective(eigrp_cli_path):
         dict.update({'eigrp' : {'deleted' : ''}})
 
@@ -537,14 +537,25 @@ def get_frrender_dict(conf, argv=None) -> dict:
     return dict
 
 class FRRender:
+    cached_config_dict = {}
     def __init__(self):
         self._frr_conf = '/run/frr/config/vyos.frr.conf'
 
     def generate(self, config_dict) -> None:
+        """
+        Generate FRR configuration file
+        Returns False if no changes to configuration were made, otherwise True
+        """
         if not isinstance(config_dict, dict):
             tmp = type(config_dict)
             raise ValueError(f'Config must be of type "dict" and not "{tmp}"!')
 
+
+        if self.cached_config_dict == config_dict:
+            debug('FRR:        NO CHANGES DETECTED')
+            return False
+        self.cached_config_dict = config_dict
+
         def inline_helper(config_dict) -> str:
             output = '!\n'
             if 'babel' in config_dict and 'deleted' not in config_dict['babel']:
@@ -639,7 +650,7 @@ class FRRender:
         debug(output)
         write_file(self._frr_conf, output)
         debug('FRR:        RENDERING CONFIG COMPLETE')
-        return None
+        return True
 
     def apply(self, count_max=5):
         count = 0
@@ -649,7 +660,7 @@ class FRRender:
             debug(f'FRR: reloading configuration - tries: {count} | Python class ID: {id(self)}')
             cmdline = '/usr/lib/frr/frr-reload.py --reload'
             if os.path.exists(frr_debug_enable):
-                cmdline += ' --debug'
+                cmdline += ' --debug --stdout'
             rc, emsg = rc_cmd(f'{cmdline} {self._frr_conf}')
             if rc != 0:
                 sleep(2)