Today Open vSwitch users are moving internal ports to other namespaces and although packets are flowing OK, the userspace daemon can't find out basic information like if the port is UP or DOWN, for instance.
This patchset extends openvswitch API to retrieve the current netnsid of a port. It will be used by the userspace daemon to find out in which netns the port is located. This patchset also extends the rtnetlink getlink call to accept and operate on a given netnsid. More details are available in each patch. Jiri Benc (3): net: export peernet2id_alloc openvswitch: reliable interface indentification in port dumps rtnetlink: use netnsid to query interface include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 2 + net/core/net_namespace.c | 1 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 47 +++++++++++++----- net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 4 +- net/openvswitch/dp_notify.c | 4 +- 7 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- 2.13.6 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev