Family ovs_vport netlink specification

Summary

OVS vport configuration over generic netlink.

Operations

new

Create a new OVS vport

attribute-set:

vport

do:

request

attributes:

[name, type, upcall-pid, ifindex, options]

del

Delete existing OVS vport from a data path

attribute-set:

vport

do:

request

attributes:

[port-no, type, name]

get

Get / dump OVS vport configuration and state

attribute-set:

vport

do:

request

attributes:

[name]

reply

attributes:

[port-no, type, name, upcall-pid, stats, ifindex, netnsid, upcall-stats]

dump:

request

attributes:

[name]

reply

attributes:

[port-no, type, name, upcall-pid, stats, ifindex, netnsid, upcall-stats]

Multicast groups

• ovs_vport

Definitions

ovs-header

type:

struct

members:

dp-ifindex (u32):

vport-type

type:

enum

enum-name:

ovs-vport-type

name-prefix:

ovs-vport-type-

entries:

• unspec

• netdev

• internal

• gre

• vxlan

• geneve

ovs-vport-stats

type:

struct

members:

rx-packets (u64):

tx-packets (u64):

rx-bytes (u64):

tx-bytes (u64):

rx-errors (u64):

tx-errors (u64):

rx-dropped (u64):

tx-dropped (u64):

Attribute sets

vport-options

dst-port (u32)

extension (u32)

upcall-stats

success (u64)

value:

0

fail (u64)

vport

unspec (unused)

value:

0

port-no (u32)

type (u32)

enum:

vport-type

name (string)

options (nest)

nested-attributes:

vport-options

upcall-pid (binary)

sub-type:

u32

stats (binary)

struct:

ovs-vport-stats

pad (unused)

ifindex (u32)

netnsid (u32)

upcall-stats (nest)

nested-attributes:

upcall-stats