Some older wireless drivers - ones relying on the
old and long deprecated wireless extension ioctl
system - can generate quite a bit of IFLA_WIRELESS
events depending on their configuration and
runtime conditions. These are delivered as
RTNLGRP_LINK via RTM_NEWLINK messages.
These tend to be relatively easily identifiable
because they report the change mask being 0. This
isn't guaranteed but in practice it shouldn't be a
problem. None of the wireless events that I ever
observed actually carry any unique information
about netdev states that ovs-vswitchd is
interested in. Hence ignoring these shouldn't
cause any problems.
These events can be responsible for a significant
CPU churn as ovs-vswitchd attempts to do plenty of
work for each and every netlink message regardless
of what that message carries. On low-end devices
such as consumer-grade routers these can lead to a
lot of CPU cycles being wasted, adding up to heat
output and reducing performance.
It could be argued that wireless drivers in
question should be fixed, but that isn't exactly a
trivial thing to do. Patching ovs seems far more
viable while still making sense.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal@plume.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Whenever system interfaces are removed, added or change state, reconfigure
bridge. This allows late interfaces to be added to the datapath when they are
added to the system after ovs-vswitchd is started.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
