os-vif/releasenotes/notes/do-not-force-mac-ageing-c6e8d750130c5740.yaml
Sean Mooney 655c83d706 only disable mac ageing for ovs hybrid plug
The mac ageing configuration on linux bridges is now
conditional and caller controlled. By default mac ageing
is unspecified and will use the kernel's default of 300
seconds. For ovs with hybrid plug we override this to
0 to prevent packet loss issue during some migration
edgecases. This change reverts disabling mac ageing
for the linux bridge plugin which was accidentally
introduced during the brctl removal via inheriting the
ovs plugin's default behavior when the bridge create
code became shared.

Change-Id: I95612352de6cdb47de98eb80c208dd1a74499d41
Closes-bug: #1837252
2019-08-07 18:54:47 +01:00

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As part of a `bug #1715317`_, MAC ageing was disabled for the intermediate
bridge created as part of the hybrid plug mechanism. During the removal
of ``brctl``, this behavior was inadvertently applied to all linux bridges
created by os-vif including those used in the linuxbridge driver.
As a result this can lead to packet flooding (see bug #1837252) when
instances are migrated. This behavior has been reverted so that the
default mac ageing is determined by the kernel and is not set when using
the os-vif linux bridge plugin.
.. _bug #1715317: https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-vif/+bug/1837252