Family ovs_vport netlink specification

Contents

• Family ovs_vport netlink specification

  • Summary

  • Operations

    • new

    • del

    • get

  • Multicast groups

  • Definitions

    • ovs-header

    • vport-type

    • vport-stats

  • Attribute sets

    • vport-options

    • upcall-stats

    • vport

Summary

OVS vport configuration over generic netlink.

Operations

new

Create a new OVS vport

attribute-set

vport

fixed-header

ovs-header

do

request

attributes

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

del

Delete existing OVS vport from a data path

attribute-set

vport

fixed-header

ovs-header

do

request

attributes

[port-no, type, name]

get

Get / dump OVS vport configuration and state

attribute-set

vport

fixed-header

ovs-header

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

vport-stats

type

struct

enum-name

ovs-vport-stats

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

vport-stats

pad (unused)

ifindex (u32)

netnsid (u32)

upcall-stats (nest)

nested-attributes

upcall-stats