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Add OVS-DPDK systemd unit deps #146

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This took me a few hours to sort out.
The first bit (missing dependency on dpdk service) is quite straightforward, and also described by the last comments in [1].
The second part - using systemctl in a post-start hook - definitely not clean, but I couldn't find anything better in systemd that works for this corner case of interleaved dependencies ...

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/networking/topic/611366

Current state of distro packages systemd unit deps (extract):
- dpdk.service wants network-pre.target;
- network-pre.target wants openvswitch-nonetwork.service;
- openvswitch-switch.service wants openvswitch-nonetwork.service,
  network.target;

However, openvswitch-nonetwork requires ports to be bound already,
handled by dpdk service. On system boot, since openvswitch-nonetwork
starts before dpdk (succesfully, despite the binding issue), and the
ulterior start of openvswitch-switch does not trigger a restart, the
system is left in a slightly broken state, fixed by restarting either
of the openvswitch-* services.

To avoid another race condition leading to dead openvswitch-switch,
restart the openvswitch-nonetwork service directly.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Avadanii <[email protected]>
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The OVS documentation recommends not to touch openvswitch-nonetwork directly, so an alternative method would be for dpdk.service to wait for openvswitch-switch.service (counterintuitive), and when dpdk.service is done, it can restart openvswitch-switch.service directly.

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