On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:10:13PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:07:05PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: > > eventlet/gevent doesn't work well with select.poll because it blocks. > > So ovsdb python binding can't be used with eventlet/gevent. > > So monkey patch to select.poll with a function that emulate select.poll > > with select.select. > > > > Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamah...@valinux.co.jp> > > What's going to use this?
My motivation is to use ovsdb python binding in openstack quantum which uses eventlet (I have Ryu plugin in mind, but I think other plugin can benefit) and in Ryu which uses gevent. > collections.defaultdict was added in Python 2.5 but the OVS Python code > has to work with Python 2.4 to support XenServer, which has Python 2.4. I'll remove defaultdict. > Why is this a "monkey" patch? You're asking about the terminology of "monkey". It is commonly used to refer to dynamic patching. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5626193/what-is-monkey-patching -- yamahata _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
