Define struct eth_addr and use it instead of a uint8_t array for all
ethernet addresses in OVS userspace. The struct is always the right
size, and it can be assigned without an explicit memcpy, which makes
code more readable.
"struct eth_addr" is a good type name for this as many utility
functions are already named accordingly.
struct eth_addr can be accessed as bytes as well as ovs_be16's, which
makes the struct 16-bit aligned. All use seems to be 16-bit aligned,
so some algorithms on the ethernet addresses can be made a bit more
efficient making use of this fact.
As the struct fits into a register (in 64-bit systems) we pass it by
value when possible.
This patch also changes the few uses of Linux specific ETH_ALEN to
OVS's own ETH_ADDR_LEN, and removes the OFP_ETH_ALEN, as it is no
longer needed.
This work stemmed from a desire to make all struct flow members
assignable for unrelated exploration purposes. However, I think this
might be a nice code readability improvement by itself.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
RTNLGRP_IPV6_IFADDR.
This commit renames the rtnetlink-link.{c,h} to rtnetlink.{c,h}
and extends the module to support RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR and
RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR multicast groups. A later patch will start
using this module to react to interface address changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The only rtnetlink specific functionality contained in the
rtnetlink module is the use of the NETLINK_ROUTE protocol. This
can easily be passed in by callers.
In preparation for generalization, this patch renames
rtnetlink.[ch] to netlink-notifier.[ch]. Future patches will
complete the transition.
When this library was originally implemented, support for Linux 2.4 was
important. The Netlink implementation in Linux only added support for
joining and leaving multicast groups after a socket is bound as of Linux
2.6.14, so the library did not support it either. But the current version
of Open vSwitch targets Linux 2.6.18 and over, so it's fine to add this
support now, and this commit does so.
This will be used more extensively in upcoming commits.
Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
Abstracted rtnetlink so that it may be used for messages other than
RTM LINK messages. Created a new rtnetlink-link module which
specifically deals with these kinds of messages and follows the old
rtnetlink API.
The parts of the netlink module that are related to sockets are
Linux-specific, since only Linux has AF_NETLINK sockets. The rest can be
built anywhere. This commit breaks them into two modules, and builds the
generic one on all platforms.
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Until now, the collection of coverage counters supported by a given OVS
program was not specific to that program. That means that, for example,
even though ovs-dpctl does not have anything to do with mac_learning, it
still has a coverage counter for it. This is confusing, at best.
This commit fixes the problem on some systems, in particular on ones that
use GCC and the GNU linker. It uses the feature of the GNU linker
described in its manual as:
If an orphaned section's name is representable as a C identifier then
the linker will automatically see PROVIDE two symbols: __start_SECNAME
and __end_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the name of the section. These
indicate the start address and end address of the orphaned section
respectively.
Systems that don't support these features retain the earlier behavior.
This commit also fixes the annoyance that files that include coverage
counters must be listed on COVERAGE_FILES in lib/automake.mk.
This commit also fixes the annoyance that modifying any source file that
includes a coverage counter caused all programs that link against
libopenvswitch.a to relink, even programs that the source file was not
linked into. For example, modifying ofproto/ofproto.c (which includes
coverage counters) caused tests/test-aes128 to relink, even though
test-aes128 does not link again ofproto.o.
Adding a macro to define the vlog module in use adds a level of
indirection, which makes it easier to change how the vlog module must be
defined. A followup commit needs to do that, so getting these widespread
changes out of the way first should make that commit easier to review.
