Starting from the 2.17 release of OVS, a default value will no longer be provided for dpdk-socket-limit. This option will need to be configured if memory usage should be limited.
Moving this to tripleo-ansible, since the implementation seems to belong there. Feel free to change component to other modules if needed. For the BZ itself, OpenStack will need to set dpdk-socket-limit equal to dpdk-socket-mem in order to preserve current memory limiting behavior. The dpdk-socket-limit configuration option is available since OVS 2.11. See BZ 1949850 for details.
Wallaby change has landed