[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Avoid losing bridge configuration after adding DPDK ports

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Wed Feb 28 18:21:58 UTC 2018


On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:48:49AM +0530, Vishal Deep Ajmera wrote:
> Whenever a DPDK port is added to or deleted from an OVS bridge, the bridge
> interface is reconfigured with the lowest MAC address among the connected DPDK
> ports. When changing the MAC address, OVS performs a sequences of events
> UP -> DOWN -> UP on the bridge interface. In deployments of OVS in RHEL
> distribution this results in loosing Linux networking configuration attached to
> the bridge interface (e.g. static routes).
> 
> This patch changes the interface configuration scripts used in a RHEL deployment
> to trigger post-up operations on the bridge device after a change of MAC address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Deep Ajmera <vishal.deep.ajmera at ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
> 
> ---

Thanks Vishal!

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>




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