On 27 April 2017 at 17:21, Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org> wrote:
> Specify the event mask with CT commit including bits for CT features
> exposed at the OVS interface (mark and label changes in addition to
> basic creation and destruction of conntrack entries).
>
> Without this any listener of conntrack update events will typically
> (depending on system configuration) receive events for each L4 (e.g.,
> TCP) state machine change, which can multiply the number of events
> received per connection.
>
> By including the new, related, and destroy events any listener of new
> conntrack events gets notified of new related and non-related
> connections, and any listener of destroy events will get notified of
> deleted (typically timed out) conntrack entries.
>
> By including the flags for mark and labels, any listener of conntrack
> update events gets notified whenever the connmark or conntrack labels
> are changed from the values reported within the new events.
>
> VMware-BZ: #1837218
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
> ---
> v5: Use addresses in the loopback range and zero port numbers in the probe
>     to avoid hitting any real conntrack entries.

Thanks for spinning this new version out, it seems unlikely to clash
with existing connections now. LGTM.
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