On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:33:25PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:58:37 -0700
> Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:57:20PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > > The ofproto-dpif creates dummies backed by sockets so depending
> > > on the order of execution when bridge is reconfiguring, an active
> > > socket may run first and not find the file.  That is usually not a
> > > problem because it will try to reconnect one second later. However,
> > > it breaks the testsuite.
> > > 
> > > This patch fixes the issue splitting active and passive sockets in
> > > different vsctl-ctl commands that guarantees the proper ordering
> > > between them.
> > 
> > WAIT_FOR_DUMMY_PORTS is supposed to avoid this problem, by waiting
> > until the ports have connected.  Is it busted?
> 
> No, but it takes at least one extra second for the port to reconnect. If
> we consider the four tests fixed by the patch, it can be 4 extra seconds
> to complete the same tests, so I'd just go with the proposed patch.

OK, I buy that, but in that case the commit message goes overboard
when it says that the current form "breaks the testsuite".  Can you
rephrase this as an optimization rather than a bug fix, then?
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