Simon; if these patches will be included in ovs 2.9.x we're all good for Ubuntu Bionic; 2.9.0 should be the 18.04 release version of ovs (based on currently plans for both Ubuntu and OVS).
I'd rather not pull them into Bionic as distro patches ontop of 2.8, but we could pull in a 2.9.x snapshot as soon as OVS create a branch.
Simon; if these patches will be included in ovs 2.9.x we're all good for Ubuntu Bionic; 2.9.0 should be the 18.04 release version of ovs (based on currently plans for both Ubuntu and OVS).
I'd rather not pull them into Bionic as distro patches ontop of 2.8, but we could pull in a 2.9.x snapshot as soon as OVS create a branch.