[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Allow for smoother restarting of ovn-controller

[Mark Michelson]

When ovn-controller is restarted, the ovn-controller process is stopped
and then started again. When the process is stopped, the process cleans
itself up by removing all traces of itself from the central southbound
database and the OVS database on the hypervisor. The issue with this is
that this removes tunnels, meaning that traffic from other hypervisors
in the cluster is unable to reach the local hypervisor. When restarting,
it would be better to not clean up, thus allowing for uninterrupted
traffic flow.

This patchset allows for ovn-controller to be stopped without cleaning
itself up. This way, during a restart, traffic can still flow freely
while ovn-controller is down.
---
v1 -> v2: Modified patch 2 to pass $@ instead of $1 to stop_daemon when
restarting ovn_controller.

Mark Michelson (2):
  ovn: Add '--restart' flag to ovn-controller exit.
  ovn: Modify restart_controller in ovn-ctl to use --restart

 ovn/controller/ovn-controller.c |  92 +++++++++++---------
 ovn/utilities/ovn-ctl           |   4 +-
 tests/ovn.at                    | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 utilities/ovs-lib.in            |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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