[pve-devel] [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs v2 1/1] config: guest: store network devices in BTreeMap

[Stefan Hanreich]

On 10/1/25 9:22 AM, Hannes Laimer wrote:
> On 9/25/25 14:22, Stefan Hanreich wrote:
>> Enables iterating over the network devices in order, without
>> performing any additional sorting at the call sites. This makes the
>> output in proxmox-firewall stable, which is useful for test cases as
>> well as for comparing the output of different proxmox-firewall runs.
>>
> 
> Are we actually explicitly sorting anywhere? I didn't really find any
> places. If there should be, we can drop those. Nonetheless this makes a
> lot if sense.

no, we're currently not - the value is used here [1] to generate the
ipfilter sets or here [2] for MAC address filtering. The generated JSON
for the ruleset is unstable if there's no sorting somewhere along the
line which leads to flakey integration tests.

I preferred BTreeMaps over HashMaps + sorting, since then the call site
doesn't need to remember sorting and if we have multiple users then
sorting only need to happen once.

[1]
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-firewall.git;a=blob;f=proxmox-firewall/src/firewall.rs;h=8cac190170a8d69e6f2c9479390f7ec0fea50a88;hb=HEAD#l793

[2]
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-firewall.git;a=blob;f=proxmox-firewall/src/firewall.rs;h=8cac190170a8d69e6f2c9479390f7ec0fea50a88;hb=HEAD#l598

>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hanreich <s.hanreich at proxmox.com>
>> ---
>>   proxmox-ve-config/src/guest/vm.rs | 8 ++++----
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/proxmox-ve-config/src/guest/vm.rs b/proxmox-ve-config/
>> src/guest/vm.rs
>> index cc97781..baff1b8 100644
>> --- a/proxmox-ve-config/src/guest/vm.rs
>> +++ b/proxmox-ve-config/src/guest/vm.rs
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -use std::collections::HashMap;
>> +use std::collections::BTreeMap;
>>   use std::io;
>>   use std::str::FromStr;
>>   @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ impl FromStr for NetworkDevice {
>>   #[derive(Debug, Default)]
>>   #[cfg_attr(test, derive(Eq, PartialEq))]
>>   pub struct NetworkConfig {
>> -    network_devices: HashMap<i64, NetworkDevice>,
>> +    network_devices: BTreeMap<i64, NetworkDevice>,
>>   }
>>     impl NetworkConfig {
>> @@ -300,12 +300,12 @@ impl NetworkConfig {
>>           bail!("No index found in net key string: {key}")
>>       }
>>   -    pub fn network_devices(&self) -> &HashMap<i64, NetworkDevice> {
>> +    pub fn network_devices(&self) -> &BTreeMap<i64, NetworkDevice> {
>>           &self.network_devices
>>       }
>>         pub fn parse<R: io::BufRead>(input: R) -> Result<Self, Error> {
>> -        let mut network_devices = HashMap::new();
>> +        let mut network_devices = BTreeMap::new();
>>             for line in input.lines() {
>>               let line = line?;
>