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2013-11-19genetlink: pass family to functions using groupsJohannes Berg
This doesn't really change anything, but prepares for the next patch that will change the APIs to pass the group ID within the family, rather than the global group ID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-22openvswitch: collect mega flow mask statsAndy Zhou
Collect mega flow mask stats. ovs-dpctl show command can be used to display them for debugging and performance tuning. Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-04openvswitch: Move mega-flow list out of rehashing struct.Pravin B Shelar
ovs-flow rehash does not touch mega flow list. Following patch moves it dp struct datapath. Avoid one extra indirection for accessing mega-flow list head on every packet receive. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-03openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.cPravin B Shelar
Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files. Following patch restructures functionality of component into three different components: flow.c: contains flow extract. flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api. flow_table.c: flow table api. This patch restructures code without changing logic. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-09-17openvswitch: Move flow table rehashing to flow install.Pravin B Shelar
Rehashing in ovs-workqueue can cause ovs-mutex lock contentions in case of heavy flow setups where both needs ovs-mutex. So by moving rehashing to flow-setup we can eliminate contention. This also simplify ovs locking and reduces dependence on workqueue. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-23openvswitch: Mega flow implementationAndy Zhou
Add wildcarded flow support in kernel datapath. Wildcarded flow can improve OVS flow set up performance by avoid sending matching new flows to the user space program. The exact performance boost will largely dependent on wildcarded flow hit rate. In case all new flows hits wildcard flows, the flow set up rate is within 5% of that of linux bridge module. Pravin has made significant contributions to this patch. Including API clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-19openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support.Pravin B Shelar
Add gre vport implementation. Most of gre protocol processing is pushed to gre module. It make use of gre demultiplexer therefore it can co-exist with linux device based gre tunnels. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-19openvswitch: Add tunneling interface.Pravin B Shelar
Add ovs tunnel interface for set tunnel action for userspace. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-15openvswitch: Simplify datapath locking.Pravin B Shelar
Currently OVS uses combination of genl and rtnl lock to protect datapath state. This was done due to networking stack locking. But this has complicated locking and there are few lock ordering issues with new tunneling protocols. Following patch simplifies locking by introducing new ovs mutex and now this lock is used to protect entire ovs state. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-04-10openvswitch: datapath.h: Fix a stale comment.Andy Zhou
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-02-22openvswitch: Allow OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA to be variable length.Ben Pfaff
Until now, the optional OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA attribute had to be exactly 64 bits long, if it was present. However, 64 bits is not enough space to associate as much information with a flow as would be convenient for some userspace features now under development. This commit generalizes the attribute, allowing it to be any length. This generalization is backward-compatible: if userspace only uses 64-bit attributes, then it will not see any change in behavior. CC: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-03openvswitch: Increase maximum number of datapath ports.Pravin B Shelar
Use hash table to store ports of datapath. Allow 64K ports per switch. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-08-22openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.Pravin B Shelar
Following patch adds support for network namespace to openvswitch. Since it must release devices when namespaces are destroyed, a side effect of this patch is that the module no longer keeps a refcount but instead cleans up any state when it is unloaded. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-05-03openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks.Raju Subramanian
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc. Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-01-17net: remove version.h includes in net/openvswitch/Devendra Naga
remove version.h includes in net/openswitch/ as reported by make versioncheck. Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-03net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.Jesse Gross
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>