ovs_vport_init(9)

✨ ovs_vport_init(9) ✨

okay so real quick — this whole page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and the star of the show is ovs_vport_init(9). yes bestie, we're in kernel land today, grab a snack 🍓

💖 NAME 💖

ovs_vport_init — the little function that gets the whole vport subsystem up and running ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ovs_vport_init (void );

like, it returns an int, it takes literally nothing, it's that girl 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. none. zero. the void is voiding 🙈

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So here's the vibe: ovs_vport_init gets called at module load time to initialize the vport subsystem. that's it, that's the whole job, and honestly? iconic. main character energy from the very first line of code 🫶

it's the "hey bestie, wake up, we're doing vports now" moment. before anything else in the vport world can happen, this runs. no cap. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./net/openvswitch/vport.c
• 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_stats(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)

literally the whole friend group, go say hi 💜

and that's the page!! 🧚 sign-off time: this cutie comes from ./net/openvswitch and it's dated October 2026 — same manual name, ovs_vport_init(9), forever and always 👑💖