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<title>net: AF-specific RTM_GETSTATS attributes</title>
<updated>2017-01-17T19:38:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Shearman</name>
<email>rshearma@brocade.com</email>
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<published>2017-01-16T14:16:36+00:00</published>
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Add the functionality for including address-family-specific per-link
stats in RTM_GETSTATS messages. This is done through adding a new
IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC attribute under which address family attributes are
nested and then the AF-specific attributes can be further nested. This
follows the model of IFLA_AF_SPEC on RTM_*LINK messages and it has the
advantage of presenting an easily extended hierarchy. The rtnl_af_ops
structure is extended to provide AFs with the opportunity to fill and
provide the size of their stats attributes.

One alternative would have been to provide AFs with the ability to add
attributes directly into the RTM_GETSTATS message without a nested
hierarchy. I discounted this approach as it increases the rate at
which the 32 attribute number space is used up and it makes
implementation a little more tricky for stats dump resuming (at the
moment the order in which attributes are added to the message has to
match the numeric order of the attributes).

Another alternative would have been to register per-AF RTM_GETSTATS
handlers. I discounted this approach as I perceived a common use-case
to be getting all the stats for an interface and this approach would
necessitate multiple requests/dumps to retrieve them all.

Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman &lt;rshearma@brocade.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add the functionality for including address-family-specific per-link
stats in RTM_GETSTATS messages. This is done through adding a new
IFLA_STATS_AF_SPEC attribute under which address family attributes are
nested and then the AF-specific attributes can be further nested. This
follows the model of IFLA_AF_SPEC on RTM_*LINK messages and it has the
advantage of presenting an easily extended hierarchy. The rtnl_af_ops
structure is extended to provide AFs with the opportunity to fill and
provide the size of their stats attributes.

One alternative would have been to provide AFs with the ability to add
attributes directly into the RTM_GETSTATS message without a nested
hierarchy. I discounted this approach as it increases the rate at
which the 32 attribute number space is used up and it makes
implementation a little more tricky for stats dump resuming (at the
moment the order in which attributes are added to the message has to
match the numeric order of the attributes).

Another alternative would have been to register per-AF RTM_GETSTATS
handlers. I discounted this approach as I perceived a common use-case
to be getting all the stats for an interface and this approach would
necessitate multiple requests/dumps to retrieve them all.

Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman &lt;rshearma@brocade.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: rtnetlink: add support for the IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS_SLAVE attribute</title>
<updated>2016-06-30T10:15:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Aleksandrov</name>
<email>nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com</email>
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<published>2016-06-28T14:57:05+00:00</published>
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This patch adds support for the IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS_SLAVE attribute
which allows to export per-slave statistics if the master device supports
the linkxstats callback. The attribute is passed down to the linkxstats
callback and it is up to the callback user to use it (an example has been
added to the only current user - the bridge). This allows us to query only
specific slaves of master devices like bridge ports and export only what
we're interested in instead of having to dump all ports and searching only
for a single one. This will be used to export per-port IGMP/MLD stats and
also per-port vlan stats in the future, possibly other statistics as well.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds support for the IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS_SLAVE attribute
which allows to export per-slave statistics if the master device supports
the linkxstats callback. The attribute is passed down to the linkxstats
callback and it is up to the callback user to use it (an example has been
added to the only current user - the bridge). This allows us to query only
specific slaves of master devices like bridge ports and export only what
we're interested in instead of having to dump all ports and searching only
for a single one. This will be used to export per-port IGMP/MLD stats and
also per-port vlan stats in the future, possibly other statistics as well.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: rtnetlink: add linkxstats callbacks and attribute</title>
<updated>2016-05-03T02:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Aleksandrov</name>
<email>nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com</email>
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<published>2016-04-30T08:25:27+00:00</published>
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Add callbacks to calculate the size and fill link extended statistics
which can be split into multiple messages and are dumped via the new
rtnl stats API (RTM_GETSTATS) with the IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS attribute.
Also add that attribute to the idx mask check since it is expected to
be able to save state and resume dumping (e.g. future bridge per-vlan
stats will be dumped via this attribute and callbacks).
Each link type should nest its private attributes under the per-link type
attribute. This allows to have any number of separated private attributes
and to avoid one call to get the dev link type.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add callbacks to calculate the size and fill link extended statistics
which can be split into multiple messages and are dumped via the new
rtnl stats API (RTM_GETSTATS) with the IFLA_STATS_LINK_XSTATS attribute.
Also add that attribute to the idx mask check since it is expected to
be able to save state and resume dumping (e.g. future bridge per-vlan
stats will be dumped via this attribute and callbacks).
Each link type should nest its private attributes under the per-link type
attribute. This allows to have any number of separated private attributes
and to avoid one call to get the dev link type.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>netlink: Rightsize IFLA_AF_SPEC size calculation</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T02:15:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arad, Ronen</name>
<email>ronen.arad@intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-10-19T16:23:28+00:00</published>
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if_nlmsg_size() overestimates the minimum allocation size of netlink
dump request (when called from rtnl_calcit()) or the size of the
message (when called from rtnl_getlink()). This is because
ext_filter_mask is not supported by rtnl_link_get_af_size() and
rtnl_link_get_size().

The over-estimation is significant when at least one netdev has many
VLANs configured (8 bytes for each configured VLAN).

This patch-set "rightsizes" the protocol specific attribute size
calculation by propagating ext_filter_mask to rtnl_link_get_af_size()
and adding this a argument to get_link_af_size op in rtnl_af_ops.

Bridge module already used filtering aware sizing for notifications.
br_get_link_af_size_filtered() is consistent with the modified
get_link_af_size op so it replaces br_get_link_af_size() in br_af_ops.
br_get_link_af_size() becomes unused and thus removed.

Signed-off-by: Ronen Arad &lt;ronen.arad@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala &lt;sridhar.samudrala@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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if_nlmsg_size() overestimates the minimum allocation size of netlink
dump request (when called from rtnl_calcit()) or the size of the
message (when called from rtnl_getlink()). This is because
ext_filter_mask is not supported by rtnl_link_get_af_size() and
rtnl_link_get_size().

The over-estimation is significant when at least one netdev has many
VLANs configured (8 bytes for each configured VLAN).

This patch-set "rightsizes" the protocol specific attribute size
calculation by propagating ext_filter_mask to rtnl_link_get_af_size()
and adding this a argument to get_link_af_size op in rtnl_af_ops.

Bridge module already used filtering aware sizing for notifications.
br_get_link_af_size_filtered() is consistent with the modified
get_link_af_size op so it replaces br_get_link_af_size() in br_af_ops.
br_get_link_af_size() becomes unused and thus removed.

Signed-off-by: Ronen Arad &lt;ronen.arad@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala &lt;sridhar.samudrala@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>rtnetlink: RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS support to avoid dumping inet/inet6 stats</title>
<updated>2015-09-15T22:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-11T20:48:48+00:00</published>
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Many commonly used functions like getifaddrs() invoke RTM_GETLINK
to dump the interface information, and do not need the
the AF_INET6 statististics that are always returned by default
from rtnl_fill_ifinfo().

Computing the statistics can be an expensive operation that impacts
scaling, so it is desirable to avoid this if the information is
not needed.

This patch adds a the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS extended info flag that
can be passed with netlink_request() to avoid statistics computation
for the ifinfo path.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Many commonly used functions like getifaddrs() invoke RTM_GETLINK
to dump the interface information, and do not need the
the AF_INET6 statististics that are always returned by default
from rtnl_fill_ifinfo().

Computing the statistics can be an expensive operation that impacts
scaling, so it is desirable to avoid this if the information is
not needed.

This patch adds a the RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS extended info flag that
can be passed with netlink_request() to avoid statistics computation
for the ifinfo path.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
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<published>2015-07-21T08:44:06+00:00</published>
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This gets rid of all OVS specific VXLAN code in the receive and
transmit path by using a VXLAN net_device to represent the vport.
Only a small shim layer remains which takes care of handling the
VXLAN specific OVS Netlink configuration.

Unexports vxlan_sock_add(), vxlan_sock_release(), vxlan_xmit_skb()
since they are no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This gets rid of all OVS specific VXLAN code in the receive and
transmit path by using a VXLAN net_device to represent the vport.
Only a small shim layer remains which takes care of handling the
VXLAN specific OVS Netlink configuration.

Unexports vxlan_sock_add(), vxlan_sock_release(), vxlan_xmit_skb()
since they are no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>rtnetlink: Mark name argument of rtnl_create_link() const</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T19:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
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<published>2015-04-09T23:45:53+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnl: add link netns id to interface messages</title>
<updated>2015-01-19T19:21:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
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<published>2015-01-15T14:11:16+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new attribute (IFLA_LINK_NETNSID) which contains the 'link'
netns id when this netns is different from the netns where the interface
stands (for example for x-net interfaces like ip tunnels).
With this attribute, it's possible to interpret correctly all advertised
information (like IFLA_LINK, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch adds a new attribute (IFLA_LINK_NETNSID) which contains the 'link'
netns id when this netns is different from the netns where the interface
stands (for example for x-net interfaces like ip tunnels).
With this attribute, it's possible to interpret correctly all advertised
information (like IFLA_LINK, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: rtnetlink - make create_link take name_assign_type</title>
<updated>2014-07-15T23:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Gundersen</name>
<email>teg@jklm.no</email>
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<published>2014-07-14T14:37:25+00:00</published>
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This passes down NET_NAME_USER (or NET_NAME_ENUM) to alloc_netdev(),
for any device created over rtnetlink.

v9: restore reverse-christmas-tree order of local variables

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This passes down NET_NAME_USER (or NET_NAME_ENUM) to alloc_netdev(),
for any device created over rtnetlink.

v9: restore reverse-christmas-tree order of local variables

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtnl: make ifla_policy static</title>
<updated>2014-02-18T23:15:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-18T19:53:18+00:00</published>
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The only place this is used outside rtnetlink.c is veth. So provide
wrapper function for this usage.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The only place this is used outside rtnetlink.c is veth. So provide
wrapper function for this usage.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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