Currently dp-packet make use of ofpbuf for managing packet
buffers. That complicates ofpbuf, by making dp-packet
independent of ofpbuf both libraries can be optimized for
their own use case.
This avoids mapping operation between ofpbuf and dp_packet
in datapath upcalls.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
ETH_ADDR_LEN is defined in lib/packets.h, valued 6.
Use this macro instead of magic number 6 to represent the length
of eth mac address.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commit adds boolean flag in bfd/cfm module for checking
status change. If there is no status change, the current
update to OVS database will skip the bfd/cfm session.
In the experiment with 5K bfd sessions, when one session is
flapping at rate of every 0.3 second, this patch reduces the
cpu utilization of the ovs-vswitchd thread from 13 to 6.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Currently, we update the forwarding flag in bfd_set_state() and in
bfd_forwarding_if_rx_update() if bfd_forwarding_if_rx is enabled.
However, these are not the exact places where the forwarding flag
needs to be updated. The exact places are in the bfd_process_packet()
where bfd status are changed based on received control packet, and in
the flow_push_stats() and compose_output_action__() where the
rx_packet counter is updated.
This commit changes the update of forwarding flag to the places
mentioned above.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
This commit adds a forwarding flag to "struct bfd". This flag
is for indicating the interface's capability of packet I/O.
Also, this flag makes it possible to count the number of interface
state flapping. bfd_forwarding__() will update this flag at
each invocation.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commit adds a new function "bfd_wake_time()" that returns the
next wakeup time associated with the "struct bfd".
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
When there is no incoming data traffic at the interface for a period,
BFD decay allows the bfd session to increase the min_rx. This is
helpful in that some interfaces may usually be idle for a long time.
And cpu consumption can be reduced by processing fewer bfd control
packets.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
This change adds the check_tnl_key functionality for BFD.
When the feature is enabled, BFD will only accept control
packets with a tunnel key of 0.
Signed-off-by: Pavithra Ramesh <paramesh@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
A number of fields are looked at when determining whether special
processing (slow-path) is needed. This commit removes wildcarding when
they were consulted.
Reported-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Reported-by: Paul Ingram <paul@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Traditionally, Open vSwitch has used a variant of 802.1ag "CFM" for
interface liveness detection. This has served us well until now,
but has several serious drawbacks which have steadily become more
inconvenient. First, the 802.1ag standard does not implement
several useful features forcing us to (optionally) break
compatibility. Second, 802.1.ag is not particularly popular
outside of carrier grade networking equipment. Third, 802.1ag is
simply quite awkward.
In an effort to solve the aforementioned problems, this patch
implements BFD which is ubiquitous, well designed, straight
forward, and implements required features in a standard way. The
initial cut of the protocol focuses on getting the basics of the
specification correct, leaving performance optimizations, and
advanced features as future work. The protocol should be
considered experimental pending future testing.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
