[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ovn-controller: Configure interface QoS only if it would actually be used.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 01:33:36AM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Until now, ovn-controller has unconditionally configured linux-htb on
> > physical interfaces.  QoS is pretty much always trouble, but it's even more
> > trouble if we set it up for no good reason.  We received a bug report, in
> > particular, that doing this disrupts connectivity in Docker.
> >
> 
> This isn't related to this commit, but last time I was looking at this I
> noticed that QoS also doesn't work when traffic leaves the host on a
> physical network (via a logical switch with a localnet port) instead of via
> a tunnel.  It also doesn't work between ports on the same host, but I'm not
> sure if that really matters.

Does this just come down to adding a set_queue() in the right place in
the logical or physical flows somewhere?  It would be nice to make this
work properly.

Thank you for finding the leak.