I can optimise the 'reload' capabilities of the systemd units, however its not possible to use those as part of the debhelper generated systemd management code; using reload rather than restart appears to be an inflight feature in Debian:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/merge_requests/14 https://salsa.debian.org/debian/init-system-helpers/merge_requests/5 ** Summary changed: - optimize reload of openvswitch-switch + optimize reload/restart of openvswitch-switch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1823282 Title: optimize reload/restart of openvswitch-switch To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/+bug/1823282/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs