diff --git a/build/images/scripts/start_ovs b/build/images/scripts/start_ovs
index 006ce7b9ebc..248759325c4 100755
--- a/build/images/scripts/start_ovs
+++ b/build/images/scripts/start_ovs
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ function start_ovs {
         ovs-vsctl --no-wait set open_vswitch . other_config:flow-restore-wait="true"
         log_info $CONTAINER_NAME "ovs-vswitchd set hw-offload to $offload"
         ovs-vsctl --no-wait set open_vswitch . other_config:hw-offload=$offload
+        # Set max revalidator delay to 200ms to ensure that learned flows are added to the
+        # datapath flow cache faster, so that Service SessionAffinity "takes effect"
+        # faster in AntreaProxy. It should not have a significant impact on performance.
+        # See https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/antrea/issues/1583
+        ovs-vsctl --no-wait set open_vswitch . other_config:max-revalidator=200
         /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl --no-ovsdb-server --system-id=random start --db-file=$OVS_DB_FILE
         log_info $CONTAINER_NAME "Started ovs-vswitchd"
     fi