[ovs-dev] [PATCH v7 1/2] Avoid packet drop on LACP bond after link up

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:17:45PM +0000, Nitin Katiyar wrote:
> Problem:
> ========
> The OVS state machine that enables and disables bond slaves runs in 
> the OVS main thread. The OVS code that processes received LACP packets
> runs in a different thread. Until now, when the latter processes a LACP
> PDU that should enable a slave, the slave was only enabled when the
> main thread was able to run the state machine. In some cases this led
> to delays of up to 350ms when the main thread was busy or not scheduled,
> which led to corresponding delays in which packets were dropped due to
> the bond-admissibility check.

Thanks, applied to master.