[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovn v2] Avoid nb_cfg update notification flooding

[Han Zhou]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:46 AM Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasagomes at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Han,
>
> >
> > Just to follow up. I didn't find any new versions for this patch and it
> > doesn't seem to be merged. Did you send any new versions or do you still
> > plan to work on this?
> >
>
> Thanks for this follow up.
>
> So I am not currently working on it but the work is still in our
> backlog. Many of the problems that we had with the mechanism
> incrementing the "nb_cfg" has been mitigated by some code in the
> OpenStack side as well as this commit for core OVN [0] that disabled
> flow recomputation upon updates to the Chassis' external_ids column
> (we had a few updates to that column every time the nb_cfg was
> bumped).
>
> But, I can try to check if I can get some prioritization and start
> working again on this patch. Is this something that you need as well ?
>
> [0]
https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/74d90c2223d0a8c123823fb849b4c2de58c296e4
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas

Thanks Lucas for the update.
Yes, I need it for latency analysis in scale test. I can pick it up. I
rebased on master and also fixed the RBAC issue and some minor updates. I
will post it later this week.

Thanks,
Han