On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:48:34PM +0100, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>
>
> On 22 Mar 2019, at 13:58, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>
> > Virtual ports like 'patch' ports that almost fully implemented on
> > 'ofproto' layer could have internal to 'ofproto' statuses that
> > could not be retrieved from 'netdev' or other layers. For example,
> > in current implementation there is no way to get the patch port
> > pairing status (i.e. if it has usable peer?).
> >
> > New 'ofproto-provider' API function 'vport_get_status' introduced to
> > cover this gap. It allowes 'bridge' layer to retrive current status
> > of ofproto virtual ports and propagate it to DB.
> > For now we're only interested in pairing errors of 'patch' ports.
> > That are propagated to the 'error' column of the 'Interface' table.
> >
> > Ex.:
> >
> > $ ovs-vsctl show
> > ...
> > Bridge "br1"
> > ...
> > Port "patch1"
> > Interface "patch1"
> > type: patch
> > options: {peer="patch0"}
> > error: "No usable peer 'patch0' exists in 'system' datapath."
> >
> > Bridge "br0"
> > datapath_type: netdev
> > ...
> > Port "patch0"
> > Interface "patch0"
> > type: patch
> > options: {peer="patch1"}
> > error: "No usable peer 'patch1' exists in 'netdev' datapath."
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks for taking care of this Ilya!
>
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
Thanks, Ilya (and Eelco). I applied this to master.
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