It already is, see ovn-controller(8). Note that ovn-controller only connects to the southbound database.
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 07:16:51PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote: > Fair comment. In that case, is there any plan in making "inactivity probe" > interval configurable in ovn north and south dub connection? > > Thanks, > > Hexin > > > On Mar 6, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If the application is extremely slow, then the connection is effectively > > dead, and we might as well drop it anyway. > > > >> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:53:51PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote: > >> Hi Ben, > >> > >> TCP keep alive gives a good alternative to use cases where there is no > >> firewall or proxy concern. Transport level keep alive is good enough for > >> ovsdb to determine if connection is alive or not, without worrying if > >> application is slow (or extremely slow) in open flow echo reply. > >> > >> Can we working on pushing this into ovs release? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Hexin > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 3/2/17, 3:57 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> We used application-level echo request and replies instead, because they > >>> are reliable even if a TCP connection passes through a firewall or proxy > >>> that does not properly pass through TCP keepalives. > >>> > >>>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:48:04PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote: > >>>> Hi Ben, > >>>> > >>>> What is the reason that it is not getting to the main release? This > >>>> seems the right keep alive mechanism for neutron to talk to ovn > >>>> database, if they are not running on the same host/container and would > >>>> have to use tcp as the transport. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks. > >>>> > >>>> Hexin > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> On 3/2/17, 3:45 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:43:01PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote: > >>>>>> I have a question on the following patch that use TCP keep alive for > >>>>>> ovsdb connection. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2011-April/251891.html > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Did this patch go into ovs main release? > >>>>> > >>>>> No. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
