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Bug 1469838

Summary:	[RFE] Support in-service restart
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Flavio Leitner <fleitner>
Component:	openvswitch	Assignee:	Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Rick Alongi <ralongi>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe>
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	atragler, echaudro, igkioka, pasik, qding, ralongi, sgolovat, sukulkar, tredaelli
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	openvswitch-2.8.0-4.el7fdb	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Downtime is now shorter when restarting Open vSwitch Previously, if you restarted Open vSwitch (OVS), the traffic was interrupted for a long time and flows were lost. This update enhances OVS to reduce the downtime when you restart the openvswitch service. Additionally, the service now restores all flows. As a result, the networking traffic is minimally impacted by restarts.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-02-16 17:27:50 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1472866

Description Flavio Leitner 2017-07-12 00:01:14 UTC

Description of problem:

This bugzilla is a request to support restarting openvswitch (with or without DPDK) with minimal disruption in the networking.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.7.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl restart openvswitch

Actual results:
Traffic stops for long period of time and flows are lost

Expected results:
Flows are restored and the networking traffic is minimally impacted.

Comment 3 Timothy Redaelli 2017-08-03 14:31:12 UTC

RFC patch sent upstream: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-July/336440.html

Comment 14 Alan Pevec 2018-01-18 01:30:01 UTC

*** Bug 1525618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 Flavio Leitner 2018-02-16 17:27:50 UTC

Closing resolved bugs.

Comment 17 Ioanna Gkioka 2018-03-19 09:26:49 UTC

The openvwitch component is delivered through the fast datapath channel, it is not documented in release notes.