On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:14 PM Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Numan,
>
> I approve of this change, but you should add a comment to the code about
> why we're setting a random hwaddr to the bridge. It is completely
> non-obvious why we are doing it just from reading the code.
>
>
Thanks Mark.
I agree. It's not obvious why it is required.

I added the comment and submitted v2. Request to take a look.

Thanks
Numan


> On 4/30/20 4:10 AM, num...@ovn.org wrote:
> > From: Numan Siddique <num...@ovn.org>
> >
> > When a first non-local port is added to the integration bridge, it
> results
> > in the recalculation of datapath-id by ovs-vswitchd forcing all
> > active connections to the controllers to reconnect.
> >
> > This patch avoids these reconnections between ovs-vswitchd and
> ovn-controller
> > by setting the hwaddr for the integration bridge when ovn-controller
> creates the
> > integration bridge. ovs-vswitchd uses the bridge:hwaddr if set to
> generate the
> > datapath-id.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <num...@ovn.org>
> > ---
> >   controller/ovn-controller.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> >   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/controller/ovn-controller.c b/controller/ovn-controller.c
> > index 6ff897325..299e1e544 100644
> > --- a/controller/ovn-controller.c
> > +++ b/controller/ovn-controller.c
> > @@ -277,10 +277,21 @@ create_br_int(struct ovsdb_idl_txn *ovs_idl_txn,
> >       bridge = ovsrec_bridge_insert(ovs_idl_txn);
> >       ovsrec_bridge_set_name(bridge, bridge_name);
> >       ovsrec_bridge_set_fail_mode(bridge, "secure");
> > -    const struct smap oc = SMAP_CONST1(&oc, "disable-in-band", "true");
> > -    ovsrec_bridge_set_other_config(bridge, &oc);
> >       ovsrec_bridge_set_ports(bridge, &port, 1);
> >
> > +    struct smap oc = SMAP_INITIALIZER(&oc);
> > +    smap_add(&oc, "disable-in-band", "true");
> > +
> > +    struct eth_addr br_hwaddr;
> > +    eth_addr_random(&br_hwaddr);
> > +    char ea_s[ETH_ADDR_STRLEN + 1];
> > +    snprintf(ea_s, sizeof ea_s, ETH_ADDR_FMT,
> > +             ETH_ADDR_ARGS(br_hwaddr));
> > +    smap_add(&oc, "hwaddr", ea_s);
> > +
> > +    ovsrec_bridge_set_other_config(bridge, &oc);
> > +    smap_destroy(&oc);
> > +
> >       struct ovsrec_bridge **bridges;
> >       size_t bytes = sizeof *bridges * cfg->n_bridges;
> >       bridges = xmalloc(bytes + sizeof *bridges);
> >
>
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