This patch shifts the responsibility for determining the hash for a flow
from the revalidation logic down to the dpif layer. This assists in
handling backward-compatibility for revalidation with the upcoming
unique flow identifier "UFID" patches.
A 128-bit UFID was selected to minimize the likelihood of hash conflicts.
Handler threads will not install a flow that has an identical UFID as
another flow, to prevent misattribution of stats and to ensure that the
correct flow key cache is used for revalidation.
For datapaths that do not support UFID, which is currently all
datapaths, the dpif will generate the UFID and pass it up during upcall
and flow_dump. This is generated based on the datapath flow key.
Later patches will add support for datapaths to store and interpret this
UFID, in which case the dpif has a responsibility to pass it through
transparently.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Following patch adds support for userspace tunneling. Tunneling
needs three more component first is routing table which is configured by
caching kernel routes and second is ARP cache which build automatically
by snooping arp. And third is tunnel protocol table which list all
listening protocols which is populated by vswitchd as tunnel ports
are added. GRE and VXLAN protocol support is added in this patch.
Tunneling works as follows:
On packet receive vswitchd check if this packet is targeted to tunnel
port. If it is then vswitchd inserts tunnel pop action which pops
header and sends packet to tunnel port.
On packet xmit rather than generating Set tunnel action it generate
tunnel push action which has tunnel header data. datapath can use
tunnel-push action data to generate header for each packet and
forward this packet to output port. Since tunnel-push action
contains most of packet header vswitchd needs to lookup routing
table and arp table to build this action.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
OVS userspace are backward compatible with older Linux kernel modules.
However, not having the most up-to-date datapath kernel modules can
some times lead to user confusion. Storing the datapath version in
OVSDB allows management software to check and optionally provide
notifications to users.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
In this patch, we add support in dpif-netlink.c to receive packets on
Windows. Windows does not natively support epoll(). Even though there
are mechanisms/interfaces that provide functionality similar to epoll(),
we take a simple approach of using a pool of sockets.
Here are some details of the implementaion to aid review:
1. There's pool of sockets per upcall handler.
2. The pool of sockets is initialized while setting up the handler in
dpif_netlink_refresh_channels() primarily.
3. When sockets are to be allocated for a vport, we walk through the
pool of sockets for all handlers and pick one of the sockets in each of
the pool. Within a handler's pool, sockets are picked in a round-robin
fashion.
4. We currently support only 1 handler, since there are some kernel
changes needed for support more than 1 handler per vport.
5. The pool size is also set to 1 currently.
The restructions imposed by #4 and #5 can be removed in the future
without much code churn.
Validation:
1. With a hacked up kernel which figures out the netlink socket that is
designated to receive packets, we are cable to perform pings between 2
VMs on the same Hyper-V host.
2. Compiled the code in Linux as well.
3. Tested with pool size == 2 as well, though in this patch we set the
pool size = 1.
Signed-off-by: Nithin Raju <nithin@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Use the new OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE flag when probing for datapath feature
support. Suppress also dpif error logging when requested, as probe
failures are already logged at ofproto-dpif.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commits adds the multithreading functionality to OVS dpdk
module. Users are able to create multiple pmd threads and set
their cpu affinity via specifying the cpu mask string similar
to the EAL '-c COREMASK' option.
Also, the number of rx queues for each dpdk interface is made
configurable to help distribution of rx packets among multiple
pmd threads.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
In the flow related functions, there's a stack variable called
'linux_flow'. Since this code is not specific to Linux anymore,
in this patch, we rename the variable to 'datpath_flow'.
Signed-off-by: Nithin Raju <nithin@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The patch contains the necessary modifications to compile and also to run
under MSVC.
Added the files to the build system and also changed dpif_linux to be under
a more generic name dpif_windows.
Added a TODO under the windows part in case we want to implement another
counterpart for epoll functions.
Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
