[ovs-dev] [PATCH V2] ovs-ctl: Remove used-by modules of openvswitch during force-relaod-kmod.

[Thomas Graf]

On 04/21/15 at 08:48pm, Alex Wang wrote:
> >
> > and how do you restore them later?
> > This looks like a dup of:
> > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-April/054378.html
> >
> >
> Thx for the reminder, this is a duplicate... not aware of the patch~
> 
> For the restoration, when ovs is restarted, it will read ovsdb config in
> (cond.db) and recreate all bridges+tunnel ports.  When creating the tunnel
> ports, the vport-* modules will be reloaded automatically.  So, we do not
> actually need to explicitly reload the vport-* modules.

I've been told that it is not entirely uncommon to disable
autoloading of kernel modules and only allow loading of them
through a particular well controlled security context. Such
environments may rely on the principle that the vports are in
fact already loaded when ovs-ctl returns.