[ovs-dev] [PATCH v6] ovsdb replication: Provide option to configure probe interval.

Numan Siddique nusiddiq at redhat.com
Wed Jan 8 06:45:11 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 2:02 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:24:48AM +0530, numans at ovn.org wrote:
> > From: Numan Siddique <numans at ovn.org>
> >
> > When ovsdb-server is in backup mode and connects to the active
> > ovsdb-server for replication, and if takes more than 5 seconds to
> > get the dump of the whole database, it will drop the connection
> > soon after as the default probe interval is 5 seconds. This
> > results in a snowball effect of reconnections to the active
> > ovsdb-server.
> >
> > This patch handles or mitigates this issue by setting the
> > default probe interval value to 60 seconds and provide the option to
> > configure this value from the unixctl command.
> >
> > Other option could be increase the value of 'RECONNECT_DEFAULT_PROBE_INTERVAL'
> > to a higher value.
>
> Thanks.  I applied this to master.

Thank you.

Numan

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