Hi Justin,

I know it's a while ago since this patch [0][1] made it in OVN but I was
wondering if you remembered some of the reasons behind doing this.

More recently, OVN got a new feature to allow the CMS to explicitly
specify a zone ID to be used for conntrack for gateway routers [2].

The reason behind that was that, in some cases, ovn-kubernetes shares
the gateway router conntrack zone with the host [3].

The fact that an ovn-controller restart flushes the shared zone becomes
an issue sometimes.  We're trying to see if there's a way to avoid that,
potentially via an ovn-controller cmdline argument or configuration.

But before that, I wonder if you know of any CMS that relies on the
flush-on-use behavior.

Thanks,
Dumitru

[0]
https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/11b75557aebd7caa433658895ff5c5e0381c34a0
[1]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-September/323402.html
[2]
https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/f9cab11d5fabe2ae321a3b4bad5972b61df958c0
[3]
https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-kubernetes/commit/f2cc64dcfb9d3205eda5fd0cb0de340a7abcb565

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