[ovs-dev] [PATCH 5/6] vswitchd: Allow user to configure controllers as "primary" or "service".

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Feb 5 21:54:44 UTC 2019


On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:50:16PM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 29, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Normally it makes sense for an active connection to be primary and a
> > passive connection to be a service connection, but I've run into a corner
> > case where it is better for a passive connection to be a primary
> > connection.  This specific case is for use with OFtest, which expects to be
> > a primary controller.  However, it also wants to reconnect frequently,
> > which is slow for active connections because of the backoff; by
> > configuring a passive, primary controller, OFtest can reconnect as
> > frequently and as quickly as it wants, making the overall test much faster.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> 
> Nice.  Have you made the necessary changes for OFtest?

I've been holding back further patches until these got in.


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