A smap is a string to string hash map. It has a cleaner interface
than shash's which were traditionally used for the same purpose.
This patch implements the data structure, and changes netdev and
its providers to use it.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
An shash always has string keys and sometimes it hash string values as
well. Usually the general-purpose shash functions are fine for working
with string-to-string maps, but this commit introduces a few more
specialized functions that only work with string-to-string maps. It's not
clear yet to me whether this should actually be a new data structure, so
for now the new functions just work on shashes.
This commit also converts one user of shash_destroy() to use smap_destroy().
This is the only existing user of these functions that I spotted as a
trivial conversion candidate while grepping.
These new functions will see more use in the following commit.
Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
This makes it easy to create a bunch of records that are all related to
each other in a single ovs-vsctl invocation. It adds an example to the
ovs-vsctl manpage.
Before this commit and the following one, with 1000 interfaces strcmp()
took 36% and port_lookup() took 8% of total runtime when reconfiguring
bridges. With these two commits the percentage is reduced to 3% and 0%,
respectively.
