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

[Alex Wang]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Thx for the explanation~!  I'll take a note of this~

Thanks,
Alex Wang,