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* openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.Joe Stringer2015-01-261-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, flows were manipulated by userspace specifying a full, unmasked flow key. This adds significant burden onto flow serialization/deserialization, particularly when dumping flows. This patch adds an alternative way to refer to flows using a variable-length "unique flow identifier" (UFID). At flow setup time, userspace may specify a UFID for a flow, which is stored with the flow and inserted into a separate table for lookup, in addition to the standard flow table. Flows created using a UFID must be fetched or deleted using the UFID. All flow dump operations may now be made more terse with OVS_UFID_F_* flags. For example, the OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_KEY flag allows responses to omit the flow key from a datapath operation if the flow has a corresponding UFID. This significantly reduces the time spent assembling and transacting netlink messages. With all OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_* flags enabled, the datapath only returns the UFID and statistics for each flow during flow dump, increasing ovs-vswitchd revalidator performance by 40% or more. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* openvswitch: Refactor ovs_nla_fill_match().Joe Stringer2015-01-261-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Refactor the ovs_nla_fill_match() function into separate netlink serialization functions ovs_nla_put_{unmasked_key,mask}(). Modify ovs_nla_put_flow() to handle attribute nesting and expose the 'is_mask' parameter - all callers need to nest the flow, and callers have better knowledge about whether it is serializing a mask or not. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.Jarno Rajahalme2014-11-091-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel infoWenyu Zhang2014-11-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: Refactor action alloc and copy api.Pravin B Shelar2014-11-051-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | There are two separate API to allocate and copy actions list. Anytime OVS needs to copy action list, it needs to call both functions. Following patch moves action allocation to copy function to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
* openvswitch: Move key_attr_size() to flow_netlink.h.Joe Stringer2014-11-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | flow-netlink has netlink related code. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
* openvswitch: Add basic MPLS support to kernelSimon Horman2014-11-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: refactor ovs flow extract API.Pravin B Shelar2014-09-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: Remove 5-tuple optimization.Jarno Rajahalme2014-05-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats.Pravin B Shelar2014-01-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.cPravin B Shelar2013-10-031-0/+60
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>