[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovs-ctl.in: Restore flows with vswitchd packet processing disabled.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 06:53:15AM +0000, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> It has been observed that when we upgrade openvswitch with
> thousands of openflow flows already established and there is heavy
> traffic going through the switch, restoring flows can take a very
> long time (8 minutes in one use case) with CPU running at 100%.
> This can make the upgrade very expensive.
> 
> This commit starts vswitchd with packet processing from the datapath
> disabled. Once the flows are restored, it enables packet processing.
> 
> Bug #16086.
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

This looks good.

It might be nicer to delete the other-config key rather than to set it
to true.