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[net-next,0/3] Allow openvswitch to query ports in another netns.

Message ID 20171102190438.2583-1-fbl@redhat.com
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Series Allow openvswitch to query ports in another netns. | expand

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Flavio Leitner Nov. 2, 2017, 7:04 p.m. UTC 
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(-)

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David Miller Nov. 5, 2017, 12:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Nov 2017 17:04:35 -0200

> 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.

Series applied, thanks Flavio.