[ovs-dev] [PATCH 14/14] ofproto: Add support for master/slave controller coordination.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Apr 9 02:54:24 UTC 2010


I remember that now.  I didn't write it down in the "feature" that I
filed in the internal redmine, so I didn't implement it.

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:47:45PM -0700, Jeremy Stribling wrote:
> That's definitely how we'll use it for now, but I thought we had
> talked about not conflating those just in case we wanted to do it
> differently in future.  I don't have a strong opinion about it,
> though.  I just wanted to make sure that those events could be
> turned off for slaves.
> 
> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >I had the notion that slaves didn't receive asynchronous events and that
> >masters do.  If that's wrong then I'll update the patch.  We just need
> >another bit.
> >
> >On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:54:33PM -0700, Jeremy Stribling wrote:
> >>This isn't a review, but awesome, this looks like a good set of
> >>changes.  One question: I didn't see anything related to subscribing
> >>(or not) to asynchronous events.  Did you decide we don't need that
> >>after all, or can I expect that in a later patch set?  Thanks,
> >>
> >>Jeremy
> >>
> >>Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >>>Now that Open vSwitch has support for multiple simultaneous controllers,
> >>>there is some need for a degree of coordination among them.  For now, the
> >>>plan is for the controllers themselves to take the lead on this.  This
> >>>commit adds a small bit of OVS infrastructure: the ability for a controller
> >>>to designate itself as a "master" or a "slave".  There may be at most one
> >>>master at a time; when a controller designates itself as the master, then
> >>>any existing master is demoted to slave status.  Slave controllers are not
> >>>allowed to modify the flow table or global configuration; any attempt to
> >>>do so is rejected with a "bad request" error.
> >>>
> >>>Feature #2495.
> 




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