[libvirt] [PATCH] network: prevent infinite hang if ovs-vswitchd isn't running

[Kyle Mestery (kmestery)]

On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> This fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852984
> 
> If a network or interface is configured to use Open vSwitch, but
> ovs-vswitchd (the Open vSwitch database service) isn't running, the
> ovs-vsctl add-port/del-port commands will hang indefinitely rather
> than returning an error. There is a --nowait option, but that appears
> to have no effect on add-port and del-port commands, so instead we add
> a --timeout=5 to the commands - they will retry for up to 5 seconds,
> then fail if there is no response.


This looks good. I agree with your comments here around the 5 second
timeout not being ideal, but being workable.

Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery at cisco.com>