[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH pve-manager v2 1/2] pvestatd: pull metric: use ip link to detect physical interfaces

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:16:44 +0200, Stefan Hanreich wrote:
> pve-common now allows arbitrary names for physical interfaces, without
> being restricted by PHYSICAL_NIC_RE. In order to detect physical
> interfaces, pvestatd now needs to query 'ip link' for the type of an
> interface instead of relying on the regular expression.
> 
> On the receiving end, PullMetric cannot consult 'ip link' for
> determining which interface is physical or not. To work around that,
> introduce a new type key, that carries information about the type of
> an interface. When aggregating the metrics, PullMetric can now read
> this additional parameter, to infer the type of the interface (either
> physical or virtual).
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

I added a time-based expiry check to re-cache this every 15 minutes in a follow
up, it's a very simple check and this way we converge relatively fast while not
doing that many updates.

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