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Signed-off-by: Huabing Zhao <[email protected]>

internal/gatewayapi/runner/runner.go

@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ func (r *Runner) getAllStatuses() *StatusesToDelete {
 	}
 
 	// Get current status keys
-	// Do not delete the status keys for the Gateway because the Gateway status is also stored in the provider runner
-	// to update the address and workload status.
+	// Do not delete the status keys for the Gateway because the Gateway status has also been stored into the ProviderResources
+	// by the kubernetes provider to update the address and workload status.
 	// TODO: zhaohuabing move all the status handling to Gateway API translator to avoid this.
 	for key := range r.ProviderResources.HTTPRouteStatuses.LoadAll() {
 		ds.HTTPRouteStatusKeys[key] = true

internal/provider/kubernetes/predicates.go

@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ func (r *gatewayAPIReconciler) validateServiceForReconcile(obj client.Object) bo
 	// Check if the Service belongs to a Gateway, if so, update the Gateway status.
 	gtw := r.findOwningGateway(ctx, labels)
 	if gtw != nil {
+		// Trigger a status update for the Gateway.
+		// The status updater will check the service to get the addresses of the Gateway,
+		// and check the Deployment/DaemonSet to get the status of the Gateway workload.
 		r.resources.GatewayStatuses.Store(utils.NamespacedName(gtw), &gtw.Status)
 		return false
 	}
@@ -528,6 +531,9 @@ func (r *gatewayAPIReconciler) validateObjectForReconcile(obj client.Object) boo
 		// Check if the obj belongs to a Gateway, if so, update the Gateway status.
 		gtw := r.findOwningGateway(ctx, labels)
 		if gtw != nil {
+			// Trigger a status update for the Gateway.
+			// The status updater will check the service to get the addresses of the Gateway,
+			// and check the Deployment/DaemonSet to get the status of the Gateway workload.
 			r.resources.GatewayStatuses.Store(utils.NamespacedName(gtw), &gtw.Status)
 			return false
 		}