Commit 7ed73428a changed the behavior of flow-restore-wait to also prevent the switch from connecting to controllers in the controller table, but failed to update the man page documentation generated by vswitchd/vswitch.xml to reflect this.
This commit adds that documentation. Signed-off-by: Zak Whittington <[email protected]> --- vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml index 6d1fc1c..efa1ef8 100644 --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml @@ -122,6 +122,16 @@ start receiving packets from the datapath and re-setup the flows. </p> <p> + Additionally, <code>ovs-vswitchd</code> is prevented from connecting + to controllers when this value is set to <code>true</code>. This + prevents controllers from making changes to the flow table in the + middle of flow restoration, which could result in undesirable + intermediate states. Once this value has been set to + <code>false</code> and the desired flow state has been + restored, <code>ovs-vswitchd</code> will be able to reconnect to + controllers and process any new flow table modifications. + </p> + <p> Thus, with this option, the procedure for a hot-upgrade of <code>ovs-vswitchd</code> becomes roughly the following: </p> -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
