README: soft restart

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 The merging is based on the backend weight. The IPVS weight of the merged destination is calculated from the weights of all merged backends, and updated as backends are added/removed/reweighted.
 
+### Soft restart
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+The `clusterf-ipvs` command will read the initial kernel IPVS configuration at startup, and only apply the necessary operations to update it to the current configuration. Restarting `clusterf-ipvs` should thus not affect active connections.
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+You can also use `clusterf-ipvs --noop` to verify that the code and configuration behave as expected.
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 ## Known issues
 
 *   The `clusterf-docker` daemon is limited in terms of the policy configuration available. It assumes the docker networks are globally addressed and routable from the frontend.