ovs_vport_alloc(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 ovs_vport_alloc(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🦋

okay so like, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ovs_vport_alloc(9) — yes that's the section 9, kernel-space girlies only, no userspace shenanigans here 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ovs_vport_alloc — allocate and initialize a new vport 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct vport * ovs_vport_alloc (int priv_size , const struct vport_ops
*ops , const struct vport_parms *parms );

like, look at that signature. it's giving "three args and a dream" 😭

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • priv_size — the size of the private data area you want allocated. yes, the size. of the private data. area. 🫶
  • ops — the vport device ops. the whole personality of your vport, honestly 👑
  • parms — info about the new vport. the deets. the lore. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what this does is: it allocates and initializes a brand-new vport that's defined by ops. bestie it's doing both. multitasking icon behavior ✨

the vport is gonna contain a private data area of size priv_size, and you get to it using vport_priv. that's literally the whole point of priv_size — it's the doorway to your little stash of data 💖

some parameters of the vport get initialized straight from parms. not all of them, "some" — the manpage said some, I'm not gonna lie to you and say all 🙈

⚠️ real talk: vports you don't need anymore should be released with vport_free. like please. don't just leave them lying around. clean up after yourself, that's main character energy 🔥

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Kernel file ./net/openvswitch/vport.c — like that's where the source lives, go read it, iykyk 📖

the whole squad. the entire friend group. go say hi 🦋

and that's the page!! this one comes to you from ./net/openvswitch and the date on it is October 2026 ⭐ so yeah, future vibes. stay allocated, stay initialized, and free your vports bestie 🧚💜 ovs_vport_alloc(9) out 💅

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