On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 04:53:03PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > I wanted to share the idea before I code it to see if it makes sense. > I imagine the patch would be small, though. > > We currently provide HA for ovn-northd by using Pacemaker to ensure > that ovn-northd is running only one time somewhere in a cluster. > > What if we made ovn-northd acquire an OVSDB lock on the southbound > database before it did any real work? That way we could start > multiple copies of ovn-northd in a cluster, but only one would be > active at a time.
I think it's a reasonable approach. It means that we'll have to make sure that clustered OVSDB, when it becomes available, supports locks. I hadn't yet decided whether locks were important for that use case. It sounds like they might be. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
