Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] ioam6: netlink multicast event

From: David Ahern
Date: Fri Feb 23 2024 - 11:50:48 EST


On 2/23/24 7:41 AM, Justin Iurman wrote:
> v4:
> - rebase on top of net merge
> v3:
> - patchset was mistakenly superseded due to same cover title used for
> iproute2-next equivalent patch -> resend (renamed)
> v2:
> - fix warnings
>
> Add generic netlink multicast event support to ioam6 as another solution
> to share IOAM data with user space. The other one being via IPv6 raw
> sockets combined with ancillary data. This patchset focuses on the IOAM
> Pre-allocated Trace (the only Option-Type currently supported), and so
> on IOAM "trace" events. See an example of a consumer here [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/Advanced-Observability/ioam-agent-python/blob/netlink_event/ioam-agent.py
>
> Justin Iurman (3):
> uapi: ioam6: API for netlink multicast events
> net: ioam6: multicast event
> net: exthdrs: ioam6: send trace event
>
> include/net/ioam6.h | 4 +++
> include/uapi/linux/ioam6_genl.h | 20 +++++++++++
> net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 6 ++++
> net/ipv6/ioam6.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
>
>
> base-commit: a818bd12538c1408c7480de31573cdb3c3c0926f

For the set:
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>