> On Oct 29, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Until now, connmgr has handled active and passive OpenFlow connections in > quite different ways. Any active connection, whether it was currently > connected or not, was always maintained as an ofconn. Whenever such a > connection (re)connected, its settings were cleared. On the other hand, > passive connections had a separate listener which created an ofconn when > a new connection came in, and these ofconns would be deleted when such a > connection was closed. This approach is inelegant and has occasionally > led to bugs when reconnection didn't clear all of the state that it > should have. > > There's another motivation here. Currently, active connections are > always primary controllers and passive connections are always service > controllers (as documented in ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5)). Sometimes it would > be useful to have passive primary controllers (maybe active service > controllers too but I haven't personally run into that use case). As is, > this is difficult to implement because there is so much different code in > use between active and passive connections. This commit will make it > easier. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> --Justin _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
