ovs_vport_get_stats(9)

💖 ovs_vport_get_stats(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a little one but it matters. we're talking about grabbing the tea on a device's stats. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ovs_vport_get_stats — retrieve device stats

like, literally just go get the stats. that's the whole job. iconic behaviour tbh 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ovs_vport_get_stats (struct vport *vport , struct ovs_vport_stats *stats );

that's it. that's the function. no cap 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• vport — the vport you wanna pull the stats from. the source of the drama. you point at it, it tells you things 🔍
• stats — the place where the stats get stored. it's giving "bring your own container" — you hand it over and it gets filled up 🍓

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So. What does it do? It retrieves transmit, receive, and error stats for the device you pass in. tx, rx, and all the little errors in between. the full picture, bestie 🌈

🚨 BIG IMPORTANT VIBE CHECK 🚨 — you must call this with ovs_mutex or rcu_read_lock. Not optional. Not a suggestion. Lock it up first or it's giving chaos 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./net/openvswitch/vport.c — and the whole friend group, because these functions literally always show up together:

• ovs_vport_init(9)
• ovs_vport_exit(9)
• ovs_vport_locate(9)
• ovs_vport_alloc(9)
• ovs_vport_free(9)
• ovs_vport_add(9)
• ovs_vport_del(9)
• ovs_vport_get_upcall_stats(9)
• ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids(9)
• ovs_vport_get_upcall_portids(9)
• ovs_vport_find_upcall_portid(9)
• ovs_vport_receive(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 no notes, she ate 💅

💖 cute little sign-off: this one lives over in ./net/openvswitch, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual. go forth and grab those stats, but lock your mutex first fr fr 🎀✨