There are a few loose ends here. First, learning actions cause too much
flow revalidation. Upcoming commits will fix that problem. The following
additional issues have not yet been addressed:
* Resource limits: nothing yet limits the maximum number of flows that
can be learned. It is possible to exhaust all system memory.
* Age reporting: there is no way to find out how soon a learned table
entry is due to be evicted.
To try this action out, here's a recipe for a very simple-minded MAC
learning switch. It uses a 10-second MAC expiration time to make it easier
to see what's going on:
ovs-vsctl del-controller br0
ovs-ofctl del-flows br0
ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 "table=0 actions=learn(table=1, hard_timeout=10, \
NXM_OF_VLAN_TCI[0..11], NXM_OF_ETH_DST[]=NXM_OF_ETH_SRC[], \
output:NXM_OF_IN_PORT[]), resubmit(,1)"
ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 "table=1 priority=0 actions=flood"
You can then dump the MAC learning table with:
ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0 table=1
The code and the specification say that nxm_length includes both value
and mask, but this example showed nxm_length only including the value.
This commit fixes it.
Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Until now, fields writable by actions defined in terms of NXM field
numbers were special cases, but commit b3e9b2eda9 "ofproto: Optimize
datapath actions" had the side effect of making it easy to modify
additional fields. This commit takes advantage of that to make
modifiable all the fields that the kernel datapath supports modifying.
We could make other fields modifiable by adding more support to the kernel
datapath.
This patch creates two new helper functions, nxm_reg_load() and
nxm_dst_check(). The new nxm_dst_check() function may be used to
check the validity of destination fields used by actions. The new
nxm_reg_load() function may be used by actions which need to write
to NXM fields.
This patch also allows multipath and autopath to write their result
to non-register NXM fields.
This patch creates a new action called "bundle". Bundles are a way
to implement a simple form of multipath in OpenFlow by grouping
several ports in a single output-like action.
Future patches will use nx_hash_fields for non-multipath related
actions. This patch renames nx_mp_fields and creates a new
flow_hash_fields() function.
Some hardware supports reporting packet or byte counters but not both, so
OVS has to be prepared for that.
Suggested-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
An upcoming patch will make stats messages much more like other messages,
in that their structures will include all of the headers. This means that
struct ofp_aggregate_stats_reply will no longer be appropriate as a
member of struct nx_aggregate_stats_reply, because it will then include
those additional header members.
Also, struct nx_aggregate_stats_reply doesn't need to use the special
ovs_32aligned_be64 type, since its 64-bit members are correctly aligned,
which is another reasonable reason to keep it separate.
These structures for OpenFlow stats requests and replies have identical
memebers, but until now they have been separate structures. Since in some
cases we actually want to treat both of them the same way, this has led
to various kinds of awkwardness. This commit merges them into a new
"struct ofp_stats_msg" and fixes up the users.
We don't know of anyone using this command in production yet, so it seems
reasonable to give it a new number instead of coping with it having a
conflicting number.
The NXAST_DROP_SPOOFED_ARP action has been deprecated in favor of
defining flows using the NXM_NX_ARP_SHA flow match for a while. This
commit removes it.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
I know already that this breaks the statsfixes that were implemented by the
following commits:
827ab71c97 "ofproto: Datapath statistics accounted twice."
6f1435fc8f "ofproto: Resubmit statistics improperly account during..."
These were already broken in a previous merge. I will work on a fix.
I've been reluctant in the past to make wholesale changes to openflow.h
because it would be a divergence from upstream that would make comparisons
and merges more difficult. But, in practice, no one does such comparisons
and no merges happen (because OpenFlow 1.0 is not changing). I'd still be
inclined to resist, except that in this series I'm adding actual checking
for byte order conventions (as opposed to just documentation).
This implements basic multiple table support in ofproto and supporting
libraries and utilities. The design is the same as the one that has been
on the Open vSwitch "wdp" branch for a long time. There is no support for
multiple tables in the software switch implementation (ofproto-dpif), only
a set of hooks for other switch implementations to use.
To allow controllers to add flows in a particular table, Open vSwitch adds
an OpenFlow 1.0 extension called NXT_FLOW_MOD_TABLE_ID.
The "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension predated NXM and supports only
a fraction of its features. Nothing (at Nicira, anyway) uses it any
longer. Support for it had been broken since January and it took until a
few days ago for anyone to complain, so it cannot be too important. This
commit removes it.
Back in 2008 or so, I introduced this extension as a way to provide
information about switch status to the new "switch UI" program. Since
then, the switch UI program has been removed and the important information
that was provided by the switch status extension is now available in the
database, so we might as well get rid of this extension, and that is what
this commit does.
Without this commit, many of the unit tests for ofp-print.c fail with bus
errors on RISC architectures (tested on sparc) and presumably so would any
other code that uses these same struct members.
IPv6 uses Neighbor Discovery messages in a similar manner to how IPv4
uses ARP. This commit adds support for matching deeper into the
payloads of Neighbor Solicitation (NS) and Neighbor Advertisement (NA)
messages. Currently, the matching fields include:
- NS and NA Target (nd_target)
- NS Source Link Layer Address (nd_sll)
- NA Target Link Layer Address (nd_tll)
When defining IPv6 Neighbor Discovery rules, the Nicira Extensible Match
(NXM) extension to OVS must be used.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Provides ability to match over IPv6 traffic in the same manner as IPv4.
Currently, the matching fields include:
- IPv6 source and destination addresses (ipv6_src and ipv6_dst)
- Traffic Class (nw_tos)
- Next Header (nw_proto)
- ICMPv6 Type and Code (icmp_type and icmp_code)
- TCP and UDP Ports over IPv6 (tp_src and tp_dst)
When defining IPv6 rules, the Nicira Extensible Match (NXM) extension to
OVS must be used.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
OpenFlow 1.0 doesn't allow matching on the ARP source and target
hardware address. This has caused us to introduce hacks such as the
Drop Spoofed ARP action. Now that we have extensible match, we can
match on more fields within ARP:
- Source Hardware Address (arp_sha)
- Target Hardware Address (arp_tha)
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
NXM_NX_TUN_ID and NXM_OF_VLAN_TCI were already allowed on NXAST_REG_MOVE,
but not on NXAST_REG_LOAD. This makes them valid on both.
Requested-by: Pankaj Thakkar <thakkar@nicira.com>
We have a need to identify tunnels with keys longer than 32 bits. This
commit adds basic datapath and OpenFlow support for such keys. It doesn't
actually add any tunnel protocols that support 64-bit keys, so this is not
very useful yet.
The 'arg' member of struct odp_msg had to be expanded to 64-bits also,
because it sometimes contains a tunnel ID. This member also contains the
argument passed to ODPAT_CONTROLLER, so I expanded that action's argument
to 64 bits also so that it can use the full width of the expanded 'arg'.
Userspace doesn't take advantage of the new space though (it was only
using 16 bits anyhow).
This commit has been tested only to the extent that it doesn't disrupt
basic Open vSwitch operation. I have not tested it with tunnel traffic.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Feature #3976.
The NXM_IS_NX_REG macro didn't check the "hasmask" bit, which meant that it
looked like it was supposed to match both exact and wildcarded NXM headers,
e.g. both NXM_NX_REG0 and NXM_NX_REG0_W. But exact and wildcarded NXM
headers differ not just in the "hasmask" bit but in the "length" value
also (the wildcarded version's length is twice the exact version's length),
so this was not what it actually did.
The only current users of NXM_IS_NX_REG actually only want to match exact
versions, so this commit makes it only match those. It also adds a new
NXM_IS_NX_REG_W macro that matches only wildcarded versions. This new
macro has no users yet, but its existence should help to make it clear that
NXM_IS_NX_REG only matches exact NXM headers.
Reported-by: Natasha Gude <natasha@nicira.com>
Our controller group at Nicira has requested a way to annotate flows with
extra information beyond the flow cookie. The new NXAST_NOTE action
provides such a way.
This new action is somewhat controversial. Some have suggested that it
should be added another way (either as part of the Nicira Extended Match
or as a new component of the flow_mod and related messages). Others think
that it has no place in the OpenFlow protocol at all and that an equivalent
should be implemented using the already available features of OVSDB. So
it is possible that this extension will be deleted and the feature will
be reimplemented some other way (or not at all).
CC: Teemu Koponen <koponen@nicira.com>
CC: Jeremy Stribling <strib@nicira.com>