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

[Lucas Alvares Gomes Martins]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:03 PM Han Zhou <hzhou at ovn.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:46 AM Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasagomes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Han,
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> > > 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?
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> > Thanks for this follow up.
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> > 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).
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> > 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 ?
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> > [0] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/74d90c2223d0a8c123823fb849b4c2de58c296e4
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> > Cheers,
> > Lucas
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> 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.
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Thank you very much Han!