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* pif: Remove unused pif_name() functionDavid Gibson2024-01-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | pif_name() has no current callers, although we expect some as we expand the flow table support. I'm not sure why this didn't get caught by one of our static checkers earlier, but it's now causing cppcheck failures for me. Add a cppcheck suppression. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* pif: Add helpers to get the name of a pifDavid Gibson2023-12-041-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | Future debugging will want to identify a specific passt interface. We make a distinction in these helpers between the name of the *type* of pif, and name of the pif itself. For the time being these are always the same thing, since we have at most instance of each type of pif. However, that might change in future. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* pif: Introduce notion of passt/pasta interfaceDavid Gibson2023-11-071-0/+27
We have several possible ways of communicating with other entities. We use sockets to communicate with the host and other network sites, but also in a different context to communicate "spliced" channels to a namespace. We also use a tuntap device or a qemu socket to communicate with the namespace or guest. For the time being these are just defined implicitly by how we structure things. However, there are other communication channels we want to use in future (e.g. virtio-user), and we want to allow more flexible forwarding between those. To accomplish that we're going to want a specific way of referring to those channels. Introduce the concept of a "passt/pasta interface" or "pif" representing a specific channel to communicate network data. Each pif is assumed to be associated with a specific network namespace in the broad sense (that is as a place where IP addresses have a consistent meaning - not the Linux specific sense). But there could be multiple pifs communicating with the same namespace (e.g. the spliced and tap interfaces in pasta). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>