[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel-systemd: start vswitchd after udev

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Thu May 18 21:11:03 UTC 2017


Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:08:13AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Aaron Conole writes:
>> > It's possible to race with the udev service, such that dpdk ports are
>> > not finished being bound until after ovs-vswitchd has been started.
>> > This means that attempts to use the port will fail.  While it is
>> > possible to work around this for some NICs using port hotplug, not all
>> > port types are supported (for instance vfio), and it requires manual
>> > intervention.
>> >
>> > Fixes: 36af136b690c ("rhel-systemd: Delay shutting down the services")
>> > Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397299
>> > Suggested-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
>> > ---
>> >  rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service | 2 +-
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> Ping?  Should I rebase / resend this?  I'm not sure if it still applies
>> to the tree.
>
> It still applies fine but I'm not comfortable reviewing it myself.  Is
> Flavio the right one to review it or should someone else?

Flavio had actually suggested it.  I'm CC'ing the tester.  Maybe we can
at least get a Tested-by tag.


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