[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitchd: doc that tc-policy needs a restart

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 13:01:42 UTC 2020


tc-policy, just like hw-offload, is protected by ovsthread_once_start()
in netdev_set_flow_api_enabled() so lets document that changing it
requires a restart in order for it to have effect.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>
---
 vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index df5aa41a23da2622eee69f143a52a7e3b970488a..0b853ff26b76aebec8692ac1c59a54a7333e6330 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@
           <ref column="other_config" key="hw-offload"/> is enabled.
         </p>
         <p>
-          The default value is <code>none</code>.
+          The default value is <code>none</code>. Changing this value requires
+          restarting the daemon
         </p>
       </column>
 
-- 
2.29.2



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