[ovs-dev] [mcgroup 3/4] dpif-linux: Open dpif despite notifier failures.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Thu Sep 15 23:27:03 UTC 2011


> "Draconian"?  Like torturing kittens or something?

Haha, yes exactly like torturing kittens, assuming rhel 5 is a kitten,
and a broken vswitch install is torture.

> Do we at least get a VLOG_ERR if we can't register the notifier?  I
> don't see one in this patch but there might be one lower down the
> stack?

We get a VLOG_WARN in nln_notifier_create().  I can upgrade that to a
VLOG_ERR if you'd like.  A separate patch would probably be
appropriate.

Ethan



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