[ovs-dev] [PATCH] bridge: Allow manual notifications about interfaces' updates.

[Eelco Chaudron]

On 5 Nov 2019, at 18:20, Ilya Maximets wrote:

> Sometimes interface updates could happen in a way ifnotifier is not
> able to catch.  For example some heavy operations (device reset) in
> netdev-dpdk could require re-applying of the bridge configuration.
>
> For this purpose new manual notifier introduced. Its function
> 'if_notifier_manual_report()' could be called directly by the code
> that aware about changes.  This new notifier is thread-safe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>

Reviewed and tested this patch in combination with the “netdev-dpdk: 
add support for the RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET event”.

LGTM,

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>