On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 5:42 AM Flavio Leitner via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:12:11PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > 'netdev' datapath is implemented within ovs-vswitchd process and can
> > not exist without it, so it should be gracefully terminated with a
> > full cleanup of resources upon ovs-vswitchd exit.
> >
> > This change forces dpif cleanup for 'netdev' datapath regardless of
> > passing '--cleanup' to 'ovs-appctl exit'. Such solution allowes to
> > not pass this additional option everytime for userspace datapath
> > installations and also allowes to not terminate system datapath in
> > setups where both datapaths runs at the same time.
> >
> > Exception made for 'internal' ports that could have user ip/route
> > configuration. These ports will not be removed without '--cleanup'.
> >
> > This change fixes OVS disappearing from the DPDK point of view
> > (keeping HW NICs improperly configured, sudden closing of vhost-user
> > connections) and will help with linux devices clearing with upcoming
> > AF_XDP netdev support.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> LGTM
> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
>
Thanks!
Tested-by: William Tu <[email protected]>
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