On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:44:13AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > [also CCing Joe on the chance that he wants to comment] > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:34:38AM +0000, Jan Scheurich wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org] > > > Sent: Wednesday, 04 April, 2018 22:28 > > > > > > Oh, that's weird. It's as if I didn't read the patch. Maybe I just > > > read some preliminary version in another thread. > > > > > > Anyway, you're totally right. I applied this to master. If you're > > > seeing problems in another branch, let me know and I will backport. > > > > Thanks! > > > > I think the issue was introduced into OVS by the following commit a long > > time ago. > > > > commit 23597df052262dec961fd86eb7c54d10984a1ec0 > > Author: Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com> > > Date: Fri Jul 25 13:54:24 2014 +1200 > > > > It's a temporary glitch that can cause unexpected behavior only within > > the first few hundred milliseconds after datapath flow creation. It is > > most likely to affect "reactive" controller use cases (MAC learning, > > ARP handling), like the OVN test case that now failed with a small > > change of timing. So it is possible that one could notice short packet > > drops or duplicate PACKET_INs in real SDN deployments when looking > > close enough. > > > > My preference would be to backport it all the way to OVS 2.5. But of > > course I don't have proof that there are actual problems out in the > > field that it would solve. > > OK. > > I am going to sit on this for a few days and see whether anyone reports > unusual issues. If nothing arises, I'll backport as far as reasonable.
I backported to branch-2.9 and branch-2.8. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev