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    openvswitch: reliable interface indentification in port dumps · 9354d452
    Jiri Benc authored
    
    
    This patch allows reliable identification of netdevice interfaces connected
    to openvswitch bridges. In particular, user space queries the netdev
    interfaces belonging to the ports for statistics, up/down state, etc.
    Datapath dump needs to provide enough information for the user space to be
    able to do that.
    
    Currently, only interface names are returned. This is not sufficient, as
    openvswitch allows its ports to be in different name spaces and the
    interface name is valid only in its name space. What is needed and generally
    used in other netlink APIs, is the pair ifindex+netnsid.
    
    The solution is addition of the ifindex+netnsid pair (or only ifindex if in
    the same name space) to vport get/dump operation.
    
    On request side, ideally the ifindex+netnsid pair could be used to
    get/set/del the corresponding vport. This is not implemented by this patch
    and can be added later if needed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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