On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:56:25PM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> As discussed at last OVN meeting, I am reposting the patch series after
> rebasing on latest master branch. There has been a lot a discussion since
> last review. The reason it was hold on were:
> 1. The concern of long term maintenance effort, since the change handler
>    implementation can be complex if we want to support more incremental
>    processing.
> 2. DDlog is showing promissing progress and we concluded that it not only
>    fits for ovn-northd but also for ovn-controller. Once implemented it
>    should be easier to maintain than the approach taken by this series.
> 
> These points are still valid and unchanged. The reason we are revisiting
> this patch series are:
> 1. Incremental processing is critical for scalability in production. Although
>    DDlog is the long term solution, it can't be ready soon enough to solve
>    current problem.
> 2. The current approach taken in this series is proved stable and effective
>    in production, and it doesn't necessarily cause maintenance problems
>    because it allows easily fall-back to full recomputing path.
> 3. This series sorted out dependency graph in flow compute related components
>    which will help future DDlog convertion. So it doesn't conflict with
>    the DDlog path we are targeting and could provide a smooth transition.

I applied this series to master.  Thank you!
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