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| author | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2011-10-25 19:26:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2011-12-03 09:35:17 -0800 |
| commit | ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 (patch) | |
| tree | 9122ceff5d75ec64e327a9fad4ad2013744c2999 /net/openvswitch/Kconfig | |
| parent | 75f2811c6460ccc59d83c66059943ce9c9f81a18 (diff) | |
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.
The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.
See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/openvswitch/Kconfig | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/Kconfig b/net/openvswitch/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d9ea33c361be --- /dev/null +++ b/net/openvswitch/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# +# Open vSwitch +# + +config OPENVSWITCH + tristate "Open vSwitch" + ---help--- + Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized + environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features + expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained + programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This + control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is + particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, + which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the + need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. + + The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet + forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, + which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and + translate it into packet processing rules. + + See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace + utilities. + + To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be + called openvswitch. + + If unsure, say N. |