> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:26 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamam...@valinux.co.jp> 
> wrote:
>>> Add a macro to waiting until all ports supplied are connected.
>>>
>>> CC: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com>
>>> ---
>>>  tests/ofproto-macros.at | 9 +++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tests/ofproto-macros.at b/tests/ofproto-macros.at
>>> index b4b6dab..af1e4f8 100644
>>> --- a/tests/ofproto-macros.at
>>> +++ b/tests/ofproto-macros.at
>>> @@ -123,3 +123,12 @@ m4_define([ADD_OF_PORTS],
>>>   [ovs-vsctl m4_foreach([of_port], m4_cdr($@),
>>>      [ \
>>>      -- add-port $1 p[]of_port -- set Interface p[]of_port type=dummy 
>>> ofport_request=of_port])])
>>> +
>>> +# WAIT_FOR_DUMMY_PORTS(NETDEV_DUMMY_PORT[, NETDEV_DUMMY_PORT...])
>>> +#
>>> +# Wait until the netdev dummy ports are connected to each other
>>> +m4_define([WAIT_FOR_DUMMY_PORTS], \
>>> +  [m4_foreach([dummy_port], [$@],
>>> +      [  \
>>> +      OVS_WAIT_WHILE([ovs-appctl netdev-dummy/conn-state dummy_port \
>>> +                  | grep 'unknown\|disconnected'], [sleep 1])])])
>>
>> why "sleep 1" here?
> 
> Because ovs-appctl commands in general returns immediately. Without
> the sleep 1 here,
> it may be unnecessarily increase the load on vswitchd.
> 
> Some system accepts sleep of a fractional seconds. I am not sure how
> portable they are. Do you
> know of a portable way? Sleeping for, say 0.1 seconds, should be ideal.

iirc OVS_WAIT_WHILE internally do that.

YAMAMOTO Takashi

>>
>> YAMAMOTO Takashi
>>
>>> --
>>> 1.9.1
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