On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov < melifaro_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 17.01.2014 03:19, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> In porting the kernel openvswitch code to FreeBSD we >> have implemented netlink sockets, so we need to pick a >> > Wow, great! > How deep you're planning to go with netlink support? > > E.g. sockets with NETLINK_GENERIC OVS-related CMDs, or NETLINK_ROUTE (and > other families like FW) as well? > for the time being we focus on the ovs-related commands. Our initial prototype overloaded PF_ROUTE: if the first message on a socket carried a PF_NETLINK identifier then all subsequent i/o is routed to the netlink routines. However this required small changes to route.c so now we are going to do the real thing (using a PF_NETLINK domain). cheers luigiReceived on Fri Jan 17 2014 - 15:10:55 UTC
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