netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] openvswitch: allow specifying ifindex of new interfaces

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2022 02:50:15 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org, pshelar@....org,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] openvswitch: allow specifying ifindex of new
 interfaces

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:04:48 +0300 you wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> CRIU currently do not support checkpoint/restore of OVS configurations, but
> there was several requests for it. For example,
> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/2909
> 
> The main problem is ifindexes of newly created interfaces. We realy need to
> preserve them after restore. Current openvswitch API does not allow to
> specify ifindex. Most of the time we can just create an interface via
> generic netlink requests and plug it into ovs but datapaths (generally any
> OVS_VPORT_TYPE_INTERNAL) can only be created via openvswitch requests which
> do not support selecting ifindex.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v3,1/2] openvswitch: allow specifying ifindex of new interfaces
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/54c4ef34c4b6
  - [net-next,v3,2/2] openvswitch: add OVS_DP_ATTR_PER_CPU_PIDS to get requests
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/347541e299d5

You are awesome, thank you!
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