[ovs-dev] [PATCH 11/20] datapath: Add meter netlink definitions

[Gregory Rose]

On 2/2/2018 10:18 AM, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>>
>> Upstream commit:
>>      commit 5794040647de4011598a6d005fdad95d24fd385b
>>      Author: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>>      Date:   Fri Nov 10 12:09:40 2017 -0800
>>
>>      openvswitch: Add meter netlink definitions
>>
>>      Meter has its own netlink family. Define netlink messages and attributes
>>      for communicating with the user space programs.
>>
>>      Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>>      Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>>
>> Cc: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> I am not sure if meter userspace is targeted for 2.9, if it is then we
> can backport metering related patches to 2.9

Andy sent me a patch for the  meter side userspace code that will 
interface to the kernel datapath metering.
I just need to find a bit of time to appy, test and post for review.

Thanks,

- Greg