ML2 plugin spawning rpc worker for agent_health_check though the ml2 driver doesn't use any agents

[venkata anil]

Ml2 plugin [1] is spawning a worker process to log warning for agent health check for dead agents [2]. But this worker process is not needed for the drivers (example OVN) which won't spawn any agents. This redundant process may consume memory and cpu like other neutron processes.

It would be better if we can push [1] under a configurable option or have any approach where we can avoid spawning this worker for agent less drivers.

[1]
https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/plugins/ml2/plugin.py#L220
[2] https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/db/agents_db.py#L319

[Miguel Angel Ajo (mangelajo)]

Sometimes we use DHCP-AGENTS (To support SRIOV, keep that in mind when finding a solution)