[ovs-dev] [netdev-dummy V2 1/2] netdev-dummy: Fix reconnecting.

[Ben Pfaff]

I guess you (or I?) dropped the list by mistake, so I'm adding it back.

Definitely.  With very few exceptions, we basically don't block anywhere
in vswitchd.  If you do, it can delay everything else happening in that
thread.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:31:29PM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote:
> Do you mean that we should consider set_config() as part of main loop
> although it is only called a few times for configuration?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:15:01PM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote:
> > > The netdev-dummy unit test ran into the reconnect condition on Jarno's
> > > machine. With his test environment, we found and fixed the bugs in
> > > handling reconnect.
> > >
> > > Co-authored-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at nicira.com>
> >
> > This still calls stream_open_block().
> >