[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] vswitchd: Make Interface's ofport a persistent column.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Nov 20 21:14:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:40:50AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> From: Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
> 
> Currently, the 'ofport' column in Interface table is
> ephemeral and is populated by vswitchd everytime it is
> started or when a new interface is created with vswitchd
> running.
> 
> Making it persistent lets vswitchd try and assign the
> same ofport number to a particular interface across
> restarts. This is just a fallback option when
> 'ofport_request' column is empty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

I know that you told me this in person just yesterday, but can you
remind me why we need to make ofport a read/write column?



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