On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 03:49:09PM +0300, Andrey Zhadchenko wrote:
> CRIU is preserving ifindexes of net devices after restoration. However,
> current Open vSwitch API does not allow to target ifindex, so we cannot
> correctly restore OVS configuration.
> 
> Use ovs_header->dp_ifindex during OVS_DP_CMD_NEW as desired ifindex.
> Use OVS_VPORT_ATTR_IFINDEX during OVS_VPORT_CMD_NEW to specify new netdev
> ifindex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <[email protected]>
> ---

I think specifying the index at device creation time is a good idea and
iirc then we do allow this for veth devices already. So I'd be happy to
see this go forwad.
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