After discussing with Ben, offline, I decide to discard the patch 7/8 and
8/8.

Instead, I'll add an option that allows users to change the stats update
frequency.


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 03:00:42PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote:
> > This command adds a new appctl sub-command "stats/require_update", which
> > allows users to force statistics update to the database when the
> > 'disable-stats-update' is set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com>
>
> Do we expect this to actually get used?  I don't like the idea of
> keeping arbitrarily stale stats in the database, if we can avoid it.
> I think that all of the stats are available from other sources
> (e.g. OpenFlow), so anyone who really wants to poll the up-to-date
> stats can do it that way.
>
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