Repro:
OVS-DPDK starting up seems fine initializing my non-blacklisted card
  DPDK_OPTS are '--dpdk -c 0x6 -n 4 --pci-blacklist 0000:00:03.0 -m 2048'
Allowing PMDs on two CPUs consuming 2G of huge pages

Before adding Ports config is done with
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs=2
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:pmd-cpu-mask=0x6

Port is added like:
ovs-vsctl add-port ovsdpdkbr0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk

Two PMDs are seen
dpif_netdev|INFO|Created 2 pmd threads on numa node 0
bridge|INFO|bridge ovsdpdkbr0: added interface dpdk0 on port 1
dpif_netdev(pmd12)|INFO|Core 2 processing port 'dpdk0'
dpif_netdev(pmd13)|INFO|Core 1 processing port 'dpdk0'
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
26062 root      10 -10 2816828 105612  16328 R 99.9  1.7   1:09.46 pmd12
26061 root      10 -10 2816828 105612  16328 R 99.9  1.7   1:09.42 pmd13


Now I should be in a similar state as you are.

I know the assumption so far was that the reboot (which resets the #queues on 
the device) might be involved.
But I first wanted to try what changing queues without reboot would do.

Even setting it down from 4 to 3 (remember I only use 2 actively) goes into the 
block.
ethtool -L eth1 combined 3
=> I can see a hang of the ethtool program

Good thing: at least it seems we can remove the reboot out of our thinking. 
Just changing #queues with (?OVS?)DPDK attached seems to be very unhappy.
Please note the discussion that could be related: 
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037443.html

For confirmation @Thiago - does for you also the ethtool program hang,
or the full guest?

Next steps:
- gather debug data on hanging ethtool
- check what happens if we ethtool after we stopped OVS-DPDK (match upstream 
discussion)
- check what happens if we have testpmd enabled instead of openvswitch-dpdk

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  Network tools like "ethtool" or "ip" freezes when DPDK Apps are
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