OpenFlow has little-known support for naming tables. Open vSwitch has
supported table names for ages, but it has never used or displayed them
outside of commands dedicated to table manipulation. This commit adds
support for table names in ovs-ofctl. When a table has a name, it displays
that name in flows and actions, so that, for example, the following:
table=1, arp, actions=resubmit(,2)
might become:
table=ingress_acl, arp, actions=resubmit(,mac_learning)
given appropriately named tables.
For backward compatibility, only interactive ovs-ofctl commands by default
display table names; to display them in scripts, use the new --names
option.
This feature was inspired by a talk that Kei Nohguchi presented at Open
vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference.
CC: Kei Nohguchi <kei@nohguchi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Until now, most ovs-ofctl commands have not accepted names for ports, only
numbers, and have not been able to display port names either. It's a lot
easier for users if they can use and see meaningful names instead of
arbitrary numbers. This commit adds that support.
For backward compatibility, only interactive ovs-ofctl commands by default
display port names; to display them in scripts, use the new --names
option.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Tested-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Supply the match mask to prerequisities checking when available. This
allows checking for zero-valued matches. Non-zero valued matches
imply the presense of corresponding mask bits, but for zero valued
matches we must explicitly check the mask, too.
This is required now only for conntrack validity checking due to the
conntrack state having and 'invalid' bit, but not 'valid' bit. One
way to match an valid conntrack state is to match on the 'tracked' bit
being one and 'invalid' bit being zero. The latter requires the
corresponding mask bit be verified.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Some of these references are not valid anymore, as things were moved to
either meta-flow.h or ofp-actions.c.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
The following macros are renamed to avoid conflicts with other headers:
* WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to OVS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
* PRINTF_FORMAT to OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT
* NO_RETURN to OVS_NO_RETURN
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Until now, knowledge about OpenFlow has been somewhat scattered around the
tree. Some of it is in ofp-actions, some of it is in ofp-util, some in
separate files for individual actions, and most of the wire format
declarations are in include/openflow. This commit centralizes all of that
in ofp-actions.
Encoding and decoding OpenFlow actions was previously broken up by OpenFlow
version. This was OK with only OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.1, but each additional
version added a new wrapper around the existing ones, which started to
become hard to understand. This commit merges all of the processing for
the different versions, to the extent that they are similar, making the
version differences clearer.
Previously, ofp-actions contained OpenFlow encoding and decoding, plus
ofpact formatting, but OpenFlow parsing was separated into ofp-parse, which
seems an odd division. This commit moves the parsing code into ofp-actions
with the rest of the code.
Before this commit, the four main bits of code associated with a particular
ofpact--OpenFlow encoding and decoding, ofpact formatting and parsing--were
all found far away from each other. This often made it hard to see what
was going on for a particular ofpact, since you had to search around to
many different pieces of code. This commit reorganizes so that all of the
code for a given ofpact is in a single place.
As a code refactoring, this commit has little visible behavioral change.
The update to ofproto-dpif.at illustrates one minor bug fix as a side
effect: a flow that was added with the action "dec_ttl" (a standard
OpenFlow action) was previously formatted as "dec_ttl(0)" (using a Nicira
extension to specifically direct packets bounced to the controller because
of too-low TTL), but after this commit it is correctly formatted as
"dec_ttl".
The other visible effect is to drop support for the Nicira extension
dec_ttl action in OpenFlow 1.1 and later in favor of the equivalent
standard action. It seems unlikely that anyone was really using the
Nicira extension in OF1.1 or later.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Until now, failure to parse a flow in the ofp-parse module has caused the
program to abort immediately with a fatal error. This makes it hard to
use these functions from any long-lived program. This commit fixes the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Dynamically determines the flow fields that were relevant in
processing flows based on the OpenFlow flow table and switch
configuration. The immediate use for this functionality is to
cache action translations for similar flows in facets. This yields
a roughly 80% improvement in flow set up rates for a complicated
flow table.
More importantly, these wildcards will be used to determine what to
wildcard for the forthcoming kernel wildcard (megaflow) patches
that will allow wildcarding in the kernel, which will provide
significant flow set up improvements.
The approach to tracking fields and caching action translations in
facets was based on an impressive prototype by Ethan Jackson.
Co-authored-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
I believe this is consistent with the handling of all other action
parsing called from parse_named_action().
Verification of all actions, including learn actions, occurs separately
in ofpact_check__(). It also occurs via in a call to ofpacts_check()
in parse_ofp_str(),
This patch is larger than might otherwise be expected as the flow argument
of learn_parse() is now unused and thus removed. This propagates up the
call-chain some way.
This implementation was suggested by Jesse Gross in response to an
enhancement I made to the validation performed during parsing learn actions
to allow it to correctly account for changes to the dl_type due to MPLS
push and pop actions.
Tests have also been updated to check for the less specific messages
generated by the call to ofpacts_check() in parse_ofp_str() which at the
suggestion of Ben Pfaff was added by a prior patch for this purpose.
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
OpenFlow actions have always been somewhat awkward to handle.
Moreover, over time we've started creating actions that require more
complicated parsing. When we maintain those actions internally in
their wire format, we end up parsing them multiple times, whenever
we have to look at the set of actions.
When we add support for OpenFlow 1.1 or later protocols, the situation
will get worse, because these newer protocols support many of the same
actions but with different representations. It becomes unrealistic to
handle each protocol in its wire format.
This commit adopts a new strategy, by converting OpenFlow actions into
an internal form from the wire format when they are read, and converting
them back to the wire format when flows are dumped. I believe that this
will be more maintainable over time.
Thanks to Simon Horman and Pravin Shelar for reviews.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@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>
This commit switches from using the actual protocol values of error codes
internally in Open vSwitch, to using abstract values that are translated to
and from protocol values at message parsing and serialization time. I
believe that this makes the code easier to read and to write.
This is also one step along the way toward OpenFlow 1.1 support because
OpenFlow 1.1 renumbered a bunch of error codes.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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
