Increase the default priority of vswitchd and brcompatd

Our hope is that this will resolve many of the issues we have seen
where temporary delays in the forwarding of packets have caused issues
of various types.

diff --git a/xenserver/etc_init.d_vswitch b/xenserver/etc_init.d_vswitch
index ae0b60682ee6a6428320a78ccf4f12ea7ea06234..3cfdd5f05363e76e700c7c44112a3159a24b0bd2 100755 (executable)
--- a/xenserver/etc_init.d_vswitch
+++ b/xenserver/etc_init.d_vswitch
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ test -e /etc/sysconfig/vswitch && . /etc/sysconfig/vswitch
 : ${VSWITCHD_CONF:=/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf}
 : ${VSWITCHD_PIDFILE:=/var/run/ovs-vswitchd.pid}
 : ${VSWITCHD_RUN_DIR:=/var/xen/vswitch}
-: ${VSWITCHD_PRIORITY:=-5}
+: ${VSWITCHD_PRIORITY:=-10}
 : ${VSWITCHD_LOGFILE:=/var/log/ovs-vswitchd.log}
 : ${VSWITCHD_FILE_LOGLEVEL:=}
 : ${VSWITCHD_SYSLOG_LOGLEVEL:=WARN}
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ test -e /etc/sysconfig/vswitch && . /etc/sysconfig/vswitch
 # Config variables specific to ovs-brcompatd
 : ${BRCOMPATD_PIDFILE:=/var/run/ovs-brcompatd.pid}
 : ${BRCOMPATD_RUN_DIR:=/var/xen/vswitch}
-: ${BRCOMPATD_PRIORITY:=-5}
+: ${BRCOMPATD_PRIORITY:=-10}
 : ${BRCOMPATD_LOGFILE:=/var/log/ovs-brcompatd.log}
 : ${BRCOMPATD_FILE_LOGLEVEL:=}
 : ${BRCOMPATD_SYSLOG_LOGLEVEL:=INFO}

diff --git a/xenserver/root_vswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template b/xenserver/root_vswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template
index 295392ee97dd05c92d8e7bae17a9cedb4ca4cf8a..f848e7b42b2c995b364e3047ef4ec095a17093e6 100644 (file)
--- a/xenserver/root_vswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template
+++ b/xenserver/root_vswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 # VSWITCHD_PRIORITY: "nice" priority at which to run ovs-vswitchd and related
 #     processes.
-# VSWITCHD_PRIORITY=-5
+# VSWITCHD_PRIORITY=-10
 
 # VSWITCHD_LOGFILE: File to send the FILE_LOGLEVEL log messages to.
 # VSWITCHD_LOGFILE=/var/log/ovs-vswitchd.log
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 
 # BRCOMPATD_PRIORITY: "nice" priority at which to run ovs-vswitchd and related
 #     processes.
-# BRCOMPATD_PRIORITY=-5
+# BRCOMPATD_PRIORITY=-10
 
 # BRCOMPATD_LOGFILE: File to send the FILE_LOGLEVEL log messages to.
 # BRCOMPATD_LOGFILE=/var/log/ovs-brcompatd.log