[ovs-dev] to exec ovs-vsctl, or to emulate it?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:25:38PM -0700, Neil McKee wrote:
> Thank you for your comments.  Very helpful.
> Just one further question:  every time the daemon polls with ovs-vsctl to make sure nothing has changed,   I get more logging in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep  1 12:17:04 xenserver56 ovs-vsctl: 00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as /usr/bin/ovs-vsctl list sflow
> Sep  1 12:17:04 xenserver56 ovs-vsctl: 00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as /usr/bin/ovs-vsctl list-br
> Sep  1 12:17:04 xenserver56 ovs-vsctl: 00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as /usr/bin/ovs-vsctl get bridge xenbr0 sflow
> 
> This seems a little chatty.   Perhaps this logging could be reserved for invocations that attempt to modify the config (create, set, destroy,...)?

That's a reasonable suggestion.  I sent out a pair of patches.