In the ovsdb-server log there are fairly continuous messages like these:
Apr 26 11:27:55|15254|reconnect|INFO|unix:/tmp/stream-unix.31734.0: connected
Apr 26 11:27:55|15255|reconnect|INFO|unix:/tmp/stream-unix.31734.0: connection dropped
Apr 26 11:28:00|15256|reconnect|INFO|unix:/tmp/stream-unix.31810.0: connecting...
Apr 26 11:28:00|15257|reconnect|INFO|unix:/tmp/stream-unix.31810.0: connected
Apr 26 11:28:00|15258|reconnect|INFO|unix:/tmp/stream-unix.31810.0: connection dropped
These just indicate that ovs-vsctl is connecting to ovsdb-server from,
for example, the "vif" script. But there's no need to log all that detail;
it's simply not useful. This commit suppresses it.
Bug #2715.
Sometimes it is useful to limit the number of connection attempts, either
from policy or because it is not possible to reconnect at all (e.g. because
a connection was accepted from a listening socket instead of made with
connect()). This commit adds that feature.
This library implements the reconnection FSM used by the "rconn" library.
Therefore, it makes sense to change rconn to use this, and I have a patch
to do that, but I am not applying it at the moment to avoid changing unrelated
code on the "db" branch.
