[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] ovsdb-idl.c: Allows retry even when using a single remote.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Aug 21 18:13:16 UTC 2019


On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 09:29:57AM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> From: Han Zhou <hzhou8 at ebay.com>
> 
> When clustered mode is used, the client needs to retry connecting
> to new servers when certain failures happen. Today it is allowed to
> retry new connection only if multiple remotes are used, which prevents
> using LB VIP with clustered nodes. This patch makes sure the retry
> logic works when using LB VIP: although same IP is used for retrying,
> the LB can actually redirect the connection to a new node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <hzhou8 at ebay.com>
> ---
> v2 -> v3: Minor fix for test case.

I see that I commented on v1 of this patch by mistake, but the same
comment applies here: please update the documentation to explain the new
behavior.


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