On 24 April 2017 at 13:50, Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upstream commit:
>
>     commit 120645513f55a4ac5543120d9e79925d30a0156f
>     Author: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
>     Date:   Fri Apr 21 16:48:06 2017 -0700
>
>     openvswitch: Add eventmask support to CT action.
>
>     Add a new optional conntrack action attribute OVS_CT_ATTR_EVENTMASK,
>     which can be used in conjunction with the commit flag
>     (OVS_CT_ATTR_COMMIT) to set the mask of bits specifying which
>     conntrack events (IPCT_*) should be delivered via the Netfilter
>     netlink multicast groups.  Default behavior depends on the system
>     configuration, but typically a lot of events are delivered.  This can be
>     very chatty for the NFNLGRP_CONNTRACK_UPDATE group, even if only some
>     types of events are of interest.
>
>     Netfilter core init_conntrack() adds the event cache extension, so we
>     only need to set the ctmask value.  However, if the system is
>     configured without support for events, the setting will be skipped due
>     to extension not being found.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
>     Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
>     Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
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