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Jarno Rajahalme
05da5898a9 openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.
This new flag is useful for suppressing error logging while probing
for datapath features using flow commands.  For backwards
compatibility reasons the commands are executed normally, but error
logging is suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-09 18:58:44 -08:00
Thomas Graf
12eb18f711 openvswitch: Constify various function arguments
Help produce better optimized code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-09 18:58:44 -08:00
Wenyu Zhang
8f0aad6f35 openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel info
OVS vswitch has extended IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers
to improve network visibility.
To export this information userspace needs to know egress tunnel
for given packet. By extending packet attributes datapath can
export egress tunnel info for given packet. So that userspace
can ask for egress tunnel info in userspace action. This
information is used to build IPFIX data for given flow.

Signed-off-by: Wenyu Zhang <wenyuz@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-09 18:58:44 -08:00
Simon Horman
25cd9ba0ab openvswitch: Add basic MPLS support to kernel
Allow datapath to recognize and extract MPLS labels into flow keys
and execute actions which push, pop, and set labels on packets.

Based heavily on work by Leo Alterman, Ravi K, Isaku Yamahata and Joe Stringer.

Cc: Ravi K <rkerur@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Alterman <lalterman@nicira.com>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-05 23:52:33 -08:00
Jesse Gross
f579668406 openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling.
The Openvswitch implementation is completely agnostic to the options
that are in use and can handle newly defined options without
further work. It does this by simply matching on a byte array
of options and allowing userspace to setup flows on this array.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-06 00:32:21 -04:00
Jesse Gross
f0b128c1e2 openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure.
Currently, the flow information that is matched for tunnels and
the tunnel data passed around with packets is the same. However,
as additional information is added this is not necessarily desirable,
as in the case of pointers.

This adds a new structure for tunnel metadata which currently contains
only the existing struct. This change is purely internal to the kernel
since the current OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV4_TUNNEL is simply a compressed version
of OVS_KEY_ATTR_TUNNEL that is translated at flow setup.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-06 00:32:20 -04:00
Andy Zhou
971427f353 openvswitch: Add recirc and hash action.
Recirc action allows a packet to reenter openvswitch processing.
currently openvswitch lookup flow for packet received and execute
set of actions on that packet, with help of recirc action we can
process/modify the packet and recirculate it back in openvswitch
for another pass.

OVS hash action calculates 5-tupple hash and set hash in flow-key
hash. This can be used along with recirculation for distributing
packets among different ports for bond devices.
For example:
OVS bonding can use following actions:
Match on: bond flow; Action: hash, recirc(id)
Match on: recirc-id == id and hash lower bits == a;
          Action: output port_bond_a

Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 23:28:14 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
8c8b1b83fc openvswitch: Use tun_key only for egress tunnel path.
Currently tun_key is used for passing tunnel information
on ingress and egress path, this cause confusion.  Following
patch removes its use on ingress path make it egress only parameter.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 23:28:13 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
83c8df26a3 openvswitch: refactor ovs flow extract API.
OVS flow extract is called on packet receive or packet
execute code path.  Following patch defines separate API
for extracting flow-key in packet execute code path.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 23:28:13 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
ad55200734 openvswitch: Fix tracking of flags seen in TCP flows.
Flow statistics need to take into account the TCP flags from the packet
currently being processed (in 'key'), not the TCP flags matched by the
flow found in the kernel flow table (in 'flow').

This bug made the Open vSwitch userspace fin_timeout action have no effect
in many cases.
This bug is introduced by commit 88d73f6c41 (openvswitch: Use
TCP flags in the flow key for stats.)

Reported-by: Len Gao <leng@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-06-29 14:10:51 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme
86ec8dbae2 openvswitch: Fix ovs_flow_stats_get/clear RCU dereference.
For ovs_flow_stats_get() using ovsl_dereference() was wrong, since
flow dumps call this with RCU read lock.

ovs_flow_stats_clear() is always called with ovs_mutex, so can use
ovsl_dereference().

Also, make the ovs_flow_stats_get() 'flow' argument const to make
later patches cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-22 16:27:35 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme
1139e241ec openvswitch: Compact sw_flow_key.
Minimize padding in sw_flow_key and move 'tp' top the main struct.
These changes simplify code when accessing the transport port numbers
and the tcp flags, and makes the sw_flow_key 8 bytes smaller on 64-bit
systems (128->120 bytes).  These changes also make the keys for IPv4
packets to fit in one cache line.

There is a valid concern for safety of packing the struct
ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel, as it would be possible to take the address of
the tun_id member as a __be64 * which could result in unaligned access
in some systems. However:

- sw_flow_key itself is 64-bit aligned, so the tun_id within is
  always
  64-bit aligned.
- We never make arrays of ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel (which would force
  every
  second tun_key to be misaligned).
- We never take the address of the tun_id in to a __be64 *.
- Whereever we use struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel outside the
  sw_flow_key,
  it is in stack (on tunnel input functions), where compiler has full
  control of the alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-22 16:27:34 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme
63e7959c4b openvswitch: Per NUMA node flow stats.
Keep kernel flow stats for each NUMA node rather than each (logical)
CPU.  This avoids using the per-CPU allocator and removes most of the
kernel-side OVS locking overhead otherwise on the top of perf reports
and allows OVS to scale better with higher number of threads.

With 9 handlers and 4 revalidators netperf TCP_CRR test flow setup
rate doubles on a server with two hyper-threaded physical CPUs (16
logical cores each) compared to the current OVS master.  Tested with
non-trivial flow table with a TCP port match rule forcing all new
connections with unique port numbers to OVS userspace.  The IP
addresses are still wildcarded, so the kernel flows are not considered
as exact match 5-tuple flows.  This type of flows can be expected to
appear in large numbers as the result of more effective wildcarding
made possible by improvements in OVS userspace flow classifier.

Perf results for this test (master):

Events: 305K cycles
+   8.43%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+   5.64%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   4.75%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] find_match_wc
+   3.32%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_lock
+   2.61%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pcpu_alloc_area
+   2.19%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range
+   2.03%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] intel_idle
+   1.84%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_unlock
+   1.64%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] classifier_lookup
+   1.58%     ovs-vswitchd  libc-2.15.so        [.] 0x7f4e6
+   1.07%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
+   1.03%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   0.92%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
...

And after this patch:

Events: 356K cycles
+   6.85%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] find_match_wc
+   4.63%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_lock
+   3.06%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   2.81%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range
+   2.51%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_unlock
+   2.27%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] classifier_lookup
+   1.84%     ovs-vswitchd  libc-2.15.so        [.] 0x15d30f
+   1.74%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+   1.47%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] intel_idle
+   1.34%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask
+   1.33%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] rule_actions_unref
+   1.16%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] hindex_node_with_hash
+   1.16%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] do_xlate_actions
+   1.09%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] ofproto_rule_ref
+   1.01%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
...

There is a small increase in kernel spinlock overhead due to the same
spinlock being shared between multiple cores of the same physical CPU,
but that is barely visible in the netperf TCP_CRR test performance
(maybe ~1% performance drop, hard to tell exactly due to variance in
the test results), when testing for kernel module throughput (with no
userspace activity, handful of kernel flows).

On flow setup, a single stats instance is allocated (for the NUMA node
0).  As CPUs from multiple NUMA nodes start updating stats, new
NUMA-node specific stats instances are allocated.  This allocation on
the packet processing code path is made to never block or look for
emergency memory pools, minimizing the allocation latency.  If the
allocation fails, the existing preallocated stats instance is used.
Also, if only CPUs from one NUMA-node are updating the preallocated
stats instance, no additional stats instances are allocated.  This
eliminates the need to pre-allocate stats instances that will not be
used, also relieving the stats reader from the burden of reading stats
that are never used.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-05-16 13:40:29 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme
23dabf88ab openvswitch: Remove 5-tuple optimization.
The 5-tuple optimization becomes unnecessary with a later per-NUMA
node stats patch.  Remove it first to make the changes easier to
grasp.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-05-16 13:40:29 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
e298e50570 openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats.
With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between
multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended
operation. This patch uses per-CPU stats in cases where a flow
is likely to be shared (if there is a wildcard in the 5-tuple
and therefore likely to be spread by RSS). In other situations,
it uses the current strategy, saving memory and allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06 15:52:24 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
8f49ce1135 openvswitch: Shrink sw_flow_mask by 8 bytes (64-bit) or 4 bytes (32-bit).
We won't normally have a ton of flow masks but using a size_t to store
values no bigger than sizeof(struct sw_flow_key) seems excessive.

This reduces sw_flow_key_range and sw_flow_mask by 4 bytes on 32-bit
systems.  On 64-bit systems it shrinks sw_flow_key_range by 12 bytes but
sw_flow_mask only by 8 bytes due to padding.

Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06 15:51:27 -08:00
Jarno Rajahalme
5eb26b156e openvswitch: TCP flags matching support.
tcp_flags=flags/mask
        Bitwise  match on TCP flags.  The flags and mask are 16-bit num‐
        bers written in decimal or in hexadecimal prefixed by 0x.   Each
        1-bit  in  mask requires that the corresponding bit in port must
        match.  Each 0-bit in mask causes the corresponding  bit  to  be
        ignored.

        TCP  protocol  currently  defines  9 flag bits, and additional 3
        bits are reserved (must be transmitted as zero), see  RFCs  793,
        3168, and 3540.  The flag bits are, numbering from the least
        significant bit:

        0: FIN No more data from sender.

        1: SYN Synchronize sequence numbers.

        2: RST Reset the connection.

        3: PSH Push function.

        4: ACK Acknowledgement field significant.

        5: URG Urgent pointer field significant.

        6: ECE ECN Echo.

        7: CWR Congestion Windows Reduced.

        8: NS  Nonce Sum.

        9-11:  Reserved.

        12-15: Not matchable, must be zero.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-11-01 18:43:45 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme
df23e9f642 openvswitch: Widen TCP flags handling.
Widen TCP flags handling from 7 bits (uint8_t) to 12 bits (uint16_t).
The kernel interface remains at 8 bits, which makes no functional
difference now, as none of the higher bits is currently of interest
to the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-11-01 18:43:45 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
e64457191a openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c
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>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
Jesse Gross
0d40f75bda openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow_key.
sw_flow_key alignment was declared as " __aligned(__alignof__(long))".
However, this breaks on the m68k architecture where long is 32 bit in
size but 16 bit aligned by default. This aligns to the size of a long to
ensure that we can always do comparsions in full long-sized chunks. It
also adds an additional build check to catch any reduction in alignment.

CC: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-05 15:54:37 -04:00
Andy Zhou
5828cd9a68 openvswitch: optimize flow compare and mask functions
Make sure the sw_flow_key structure and valid mask boundaries are always
machine word aligned. Optimize the flow compare and mask operations
using machine word size operations. This patch improves throughput on
average by 15% when CPU is the bottleneck of forwarding packets.

This patch is inspired by ideas and code from a patch submitted by Peter
Klausler titled "replace memcmp() with specialized comparator".
However, The original patch only optimizes for architectures
support unaligned machine word access. This patch optimizes for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-27 13:13:09 -07:00
Andy Zhou
02237373b1 openvswitch: Rename key_len to key_end
Key_end is a better name describing the ending boundary than key_len.
Rename those variables to make it less confusing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-26 14:03:14 -07:00
Joe Stringer
a175a72330 openvswitch: Add SCTP support
This patch adds support for rewriting SCTP src,dst ports similar to the
functionality already available for TCP/UDP.

Rewriting SCTP ports is expensive due to double-recalculation of the
SCTP checksums; this is performed to ensure that packets traversing OVS
with invalid checksums will continue to the destination with any
checksum corruption intact.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-26 14:03:13 -07:00
Andy Zhou
03f0d916aa openvswitch: Mega flow implementation
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>
2013-08-23 16:43:07 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
aa310701e7 openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:42 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
a3e82996a8 openvswitch: Optimize flow key match for non tunnel flows.
Following patch adds start offset for sw_flow-key, so that we can
skip tunneling information in key for non-tunnel flows.

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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
ffe3f43217 openvswitch: Expand action buffer size.
MAX_ACTIONS_BUFSIZE limits action list size, set tunnel action
needs extra space on action list, for now increase max actions list limit.

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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
7d5437c709 openvswitch: Add tunneling interface.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
74f84a5726 openvswitch: Copy individual actions.
Rather than validating actions and then copying all actiaons
in one block, following patch does same operation in single pass.
This validate and copy action one by one. This is required for
ovs tunneling patch.

This patch does not change any functionality.

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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
93d8fd1514 openvswitch: Simplify interface ovs_flow_metadata_from_nlattrs()
This is not functional change, this is just code cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-14 15:09:12 -07:00
Thomas Graf
c3ff8cfe3e openvswitch: Refine Netlink message size calculation and kill FLOW_BUFSIZE
Kills the FLOW_BUFSIZE constant which needs to be calculated manually
and replaces it with key_attr_size() based on nla_total_size().
Calculates the size of datapath messages instead of relying on
NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE and moves the existing message size calculations
into own functions for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-03-29 17:53:57 -07:00
Ansis Atteka
39c7caebc9 openvswitch: add skb mark matching and set action
This patch adds support for skb mark matching and set action.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-11-26 11:33:18 -08:00
David S. Miller
b48b63a1f6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
	net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c

Rather easy conflict resolution, the 'net' tree had bug fixes to make
sure we checked if a socket is a time-wait one or not and elide the
logging code if so.

Whereas on the 'net-next' side we are calculating the UID and GID from
the creds using different interfaces due to the user namespace changes
from Eric Biederman.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-15 11:43:53 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
15eac2a742 openvswitch: Increase maximum number of datapath ports.
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>
2012-09-03 19:20:49 -07:00
Jesse Gross
c303aa94cd openvswitch: Fix FLOW_BUFSIZE definition.
The vlan encapsulation fields in the maximum flow defintion were
never updated when the representation changed before upstreaming.
In theory this could cause a kernel panic when a maximum length
flow is used.  In practice this has never happened (to my knowledge)
because skb allocations are padded out to a cache line so you would
need the right combination of flow and packet being sent to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-09-03 19:06:27 -07:00
Raju Subramanian
caf2ee14bb openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks.
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>
2012-05-03 18:55:23 -07:00
Jesse Gross
ccb1352e76 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>
2011-12-03 09:35:17 -08:00