On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:37:06 -0700
Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:33:25PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:58:37 -0700
> > Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:57:20PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > > > The ofproto-dpif creates dummies backed by sockets so depending
> > > > on the order of execution when bridge is reconfiguring, an
> > > > active socket may run first and not find the file.  That is
> > > > usually not a problem because it will try to reconnect one
> > > > second later. However, it breaks the testsuite.
> > > > 
> > > > This patch fixes the issue splitting active and passive sockets
> > > > in different vsctl-ctl commands that guarantees the proper
> > > > ordering between them.
> > > 
> > > WAIT_FOR_DUMMY_PORTS is supposed to avoid this problem, by waiting
> > > until the ports have connected.  Is it busted?
> > 
> > No, but it takes at least one extra second for the port to
> > reconnect. If we consider the four tests fixed by the patch, it can
> > be 4 extra seconds to complete the same tests, so I'd just go with
> > the proposed patch.
> 
> OK, I buy that, but in that case the commit message goes overboard
> when it says that the current form "breaks the testsuite".  Can you
> rephrase this as an optimization rather than a bug fix, then?

Not really because it is a bug fix.  Those tests break like 7 out of 10
times on a s390x.
fbl
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