Description of problem: When starting ovn migration revert (already after controller nodes are up) there is still a long downtime until VMs are responsive again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHOS-17.1-RHEL-9-20230621.n.1 openstack-neutron-ovn-migration-tool-18.6.1-1.20230518200969.el9ost.noarch python3-neutron-18.6.1-1.20230518200969.el9ost.noarch ovn22.12-22.12.0-46.el9fdp.x86_64 openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-14.el9fdp.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Deploy HA environment with OVS neutron backend 2.Create networks, subnets, security groups, spawn VMs connected to the created networks, make sure VMs are either connected to external network or have FIPs in order to be accessible from the external network 3.Create a backup of controller nodes in order to be able to revert afterwards 4.Migrate the neutron backend to OVS 5.Make sure VMs are responding to ping requests from the external network 6.Restore controller nodes from the backup 7.Make sure controller nodes are restored and VMs are still pingable. 8. Start an infinite ping processes to all VMs and run revert playbook (/usr/share/ansible/neutron-ovn-migration/playbooks/revert.yml) Actual results: VMs are not responding to pings for about 20 minutes Expected results: There is a rather short network downtime (several seconds, at least less than a minute). Additional info: If this long downtime is considered reasonable we need to document it. Customers would expect rather short network downtime.