On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:56:09PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > When using virtualization, new ports are created and removed all the time. > These > ports do not persist after a system reboot, for example. They may be created > again by the virtualization manager, but that will happen after the vswitch is > already running, and the virtualization manager will add them again to the > bridge. > > If a reboot happens without properly deleting such ports, all kinds of errors > will happen. The absence of the ports will be logged as errors, and adding > those > ports again to the database will fail. > > Deleting all bridges may not be an option, if the system cannot persist other > information outside of OVSDB. > > This patch introduces the notion of transient ports. Ports may be added as > transient, as a boolean in other_config smap. When openvswitch is started by > using --delete-transient-ports ovs-ctl option, all transient ports will be > removed. > > Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@redhat.com>
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