dragonflow ovsdb monitor

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This blueprint describe the addition of OVSDB monitor support for Dragonflow. It implements the lightweight OVSDB driver which based on the OVSDB monitor\notification mechanism, it solves the performance problem for Dragonflow to fetch vm ports/interfaces info from OVSDB.

When Dragonflow start, the OVSDB driver will establish the connection to OVSDB, it will send the ovsdb monitor message to OVSDB to subscribe the specific OVSDB table, the OVSDB driver will get all the existing port/interface info on openvswitch, if there are some new added port/interface, the corresponding info will be notified to the OVSDB driver. The OVSDB driver will notify all the messages from OVSDB to each app in Dragonflow

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Approver:
hujie
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Drafter:
hujie
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
hujie
Definition:
Approved
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None
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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:ovsdbmonitor,n,z

Spec address: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/284050/
    Describe ovsdb monitor mechanism for dragonFlow

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292768/
    Implement ovsdb monitor function for dragonflow

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/301691/
    use IDLs built-in notify for ovsdb monitor

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bug/1564766,n,z

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