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Ethan Jackson
454a77e5b4 ofproto: Ditch SLOW_IN_BAND slow path reason.
Before this patch, when in band control was enabled, every DHCP
packet had to be sent to userspace to calculate it's actions.
Those DHCP packets intended for the local port would have a special
action added to ensure they actually make it there.  This
unnecessarily complicates the code, so this patch takes a slightly
different approach.  When in-band is enabled, *all* DHCP packets
must be sent to the local port.  This guarantees that
xlate_actions() returns the same result every time for a given
flow.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-05-29 13:15:15 -07:00
Ethan Jackson
ba33dd0354 ofproto-dpif: Ditch SLOW_MATCH slow path reason.
Before this patch, datapath keys with ODP_FIT_TO_LITTLE, would be
assigned subfacets and installed in the kernel with a SLOW_MATCH
slow path reason.  This is problematic, because these flow keys
can't be reliable converted into a 'struct flow' thus breaking a
fundamental assumption of ofproto-dpif.  This patch circumvents the
issue by skipping facet creation for these flows altogether.  This
approach has the added benefit of simplifying the code for future
patches.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2013-05-29 13:15:15 -07:00
Ethan Jackson
ccc096898c bfd: Implement Bidirectional Forwarding Detection.
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>
2013-05-07 16:31:14 -07:00
Romain Lenglet
29089a540c Implement IPFIX export
Define a new NXAST_SAMPLE OpenFlow vendor action and the corresponding
OFPACT_SAMPLE OVS action, to do per-flow packet sampling, translated
into a new SAMPLE "flow_sample" dp action.

Make the userspace action's userdata size vary depending on the union
member used.  Add a new "flow_sample" upcall to do per-flow packet
sampling.  Add a new "ipfix" upcall to do per-bridge packet sampling
to IPFIX collectors.

Extend the OVSDB schema to support configuring IPFIX collector sets.
Add support for configuring multiple IPFIX collectors for per-flow
packet sampling.  Add support for configuring per-bridge IPFIX
sampling.

Automatically generate standard IPFIX entity definitions from the IANA
specs.  Send one IPFIX data record message for every packet sampled by
an OpenFlow sample action or received by a bridge configured with
IPFIX sampling, and periodically send IPFIX template set messages.

Signed-off-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2013-04-22 14:33:58 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
85c9de194b Tunnel: Cleanup old tunnel infrastructure.
Since userspace flow based tunneling code is checked in, the kernel
port based tunneling code can be removed.

Patch removes following components:
 - tunnel ports hash table and moved tunnel ports list to individual
   vports.
 - Cleaned per tnl-port config.
 - OVS_KEY_ATTR_TUN_ID action is removed.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Bug #15078
2013-03-04 13:00:25 -08:00
Ansis Atteka
09a0d2e7c5 tunnel: set skb mark for IPsec tunnel packets
The new ovs-monitor-ipsec implementation will use skb marks in
IPsec policies. This patch will configure datapath to use these
skb marks for IPsec tunnel packets.

Issue: 14870
Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-02-20 11:31:34 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
e995e3df57 Allow OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA to be variable length.
Until now, the optional OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA attribute had to be
exactly 64 bits long, if it was present.  However, 64 bits is not enough
space to associate as much information with a flow as would be convenient
for some userspace features now under development.  This commit generalizes
the attribute, allowing it to be any length.

This generalization is backward-compatible: if userspace only uses 64-bit
attributes, then it will not see any change in behavior.

CC: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-02-15 16:48:32 -08:00
Ethan Jackson
b9ad7294a5 lib: Switch to flow based tunneling.
With this patch, ovs-vswitchd uses flow based tunneling
exclusively.  I.E. each kind of tunnel shares a single tunnel
backer in the datapath.  Tunnel headers are set by userspace using
the ipv4_tunnel datapath action.  And, the configuration of
individual tunnels is now a userspace responsibility, so
netdev-vport no longer marshals and unmarshals Netlink attributes
for tunnel configuration, instead only storing the configuration
internally.  There are still some significant pieces of work to do,
but the basic building blocks are there to begin testing.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-01-28 19:09:58 -08:00
Pravin B Shelar
354d4c98a8 datapath: Fix nelink attribute size for flow.
Following patch fixes flow buffer size calculation to allocate
sufficient memory for all nested attributes in new tunnel
attribute.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Bug #14767
2013-01-20 23:15:07 -08:00
Ansis Atteka
72e8bf28bb datapath: add skb mark matching and set action
This patch adds support for skb mark matching and set action.

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
2012-11-21 16:19:30 -08:00
Justin Pettit
e1b1d06afd Separate OpenFlow port numbers from datapath ones.
In a future commit, we will make multiple bridges share a single backing
datapath.  Our simple mapping from datapath to OpenFlow port numbers
won't work, since we'll want the same OpenFlow port numbers on different
bridges.  For example, the OFPP_LOCAL port must be the same on all
bridges, but will have to be a different datapath port on the converged
datapath.

This commit makes it the responsibility of ofproto to assign the
OpenFlow port numbers instead of doing a simple translation from the
datapath ones.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
2012-11-01 22:54:27 -07:00
Justin Pettit
ddbfda8462 Use ODP ports in dpif layer and below.
The current code has a simple mapping between datapath and OpenFlow port
numbers (the port numbers were the same other than OFPP_LOCAL which maps
to datapath port 0).  Since the translation was know at compile time,
this allowed different layers to easily translate between the two, so
the translation often occurred late.

A future commit will break this simple mapping, so this commit draws a
line between where datapath and OpenFlow port numbers are used.  The
ofproto-dpif layer will be responsible for the translations.  Callers
above will use OpenFlow port numbers.  Providers below will use
datapath port numbers.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
2012-11-01 22:54:27 -07:00
Justin Pettit
9b56fe137d Always treat datapath ports as 32 bits.
Most of the code referred to datapath ports as 32-bit values, but a few
places still used 16-bit references.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
2012-11-01 22:54:27 -07:00
Kyle Mestery
356af50bc2 datapath: Add support for tun_key to Open vSwitch datapath
This is a first pass at providing a tun_key which can be
used as the basis for flow-based tunnelling. The
tun_key includes and replaces the tun_id in both struct
ovs_skb_cb and struct sw_tun_key.

This patch allows all existing tun_id behaviour to still work. Existing
users of tun_id are redirected to tun_key->tun_id to retain compatibility.
However, when the userspace code is updated to make use of the new
tun_key, the old behaviour will be deprecated and removed.

NOTE: With these changes, the tunneling code no longer assumes input and
output keys are symmetric.  If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled
for tunneling to work.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-10-20 12:15:24 -07:00
Zoltan Kiss
31a1e58ec7 lib: Define OVSP_NONE in a more clear way
The value represented by the macro would stay exactly the same, just become obvious.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-07-12 16:49:16 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
2508ac16de odp-util: Update ODPUTIL_FLOW_KEY_BYTES for current kernel flow format.
Before we submitted the kernel module upstream, we updated the flow format
by adding two fields to the description of packets with VLAN headers, but
we forgot to update ODPUTIL_FLOW_KEY_BYTES to reflect these changes.  The
result was that a maximum-length flow did not fit in the given space.

This fixes a crash processing IPv6 neighbor discovery packets with VLAN
headers received in a tunnel configured with key=flow or in_key=flow.

This updates some comments to better describe the implications of
ODPUTIL_FLOW_KEY_BYTES (suggested by Justin).

This also updates test-odp.c so that it would have caught this problem, and
updates odp.at to demonstrate that a full 156 bytes are necessary.  (To see
that, revert the change to ODPUTIL_FLOW_KEY_BYTES and run the test.)

Reported-by: Dan Wendlandt <dan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-25 09:56:18 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
44bac24ba5 simap: New data structure for string-to-integer maps.
This commit adapts a couple of existing pieces of code to use the
new data structure.  The following commit will add another user
(which is also the first use of the simap_increas() function).

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-22 10:32:02 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
6a7e895f94 ofproto-dpif: Introduce "slow path" datapath flows.
Most exact-match flows can be handled directly in the datapath, but
for various reasons, some cannot: every packet in these flows must
be sent separately to userspace.  Until now, flows that cannot be
handled entirely in the kernel have been allowed to miss each time
in the datapath.  This is generally OK, but it has a few
disadvantages:

    * It can make troubleshooting at the level where one must look
      at datapath flows a bit confusing in some cases, because
      datapath misses due to genuinely new flows are mixed in with
      datapath misses for known flows that cannot be set up.

    * It means that the kernel-to-userspace packets for a given
      input port always go to a single kernel-to-userspace queue,
      even if we'd like to segregate out some of the packets for
      known flows.  (An upcoming commit has examples.)

This commit therefore introduces the concept of a "slow path" flow,
one that is installed in the datapath with a single action that
sends the flow's packets to userspace.  To make troubleshooting
easier, the action includes a reason code (displayed by "ovs-dpctl
dump-flows") that explains why the flow has been slow-pathed.

Bug #7550.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-09 12:58:55 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
1673e0e400 odp-util: Change user_action_cookie from struct to union.
An upcoming commit will introduce a new type and a new use for the
additional members.  It seems cleanest to use a union, rather that using
the existing members multiple ways.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-09 12:58:54 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
36fc5f1833 ofproto-dpif: Clean up and centralize sFlow logic.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-09 12:58:53 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
0a18743a89 odp-util: Fix typo in comment.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-05-09 12:58:53 -07:00
Raju Subramanian
e0edde6fee Global replace of Nicira Networks.
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>
2012-05-02 17:08:02 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
6814e51f41 ofproto-dpif: Implement self-check of flow translations.
One of the major tasks of ofproto-dpif is to translate OpenFlow
actions into "ODP" datapath actions.  These translations are essentially
a cache that requires revalidation when certain state changes occur.  For
best performance it's important to revalidate flows only when necessary,
so from time to time Open vSwitch has gotten this wrong, which meant that
stale flows could persist in the kernel and cause surprising behavior.

This commit implements a simple "self check": every trip through the
Open vSwitch main loop randomly chooses one flow entry and checks that
its actions have been correctly translated.  If not, Open vSwitch logs
the details of the problem.  This should help find problems more
quickly in the future.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-01-16 12:37:44 -08:00
Ethan Jackson
999fba59af ofproto-dpif: Implement PACKET_IN in userspace.
In future patches, PACKET_IN messages will include meta-data which
is only available in userspace during action translation.  Either,
this data needs to be stored until it's required by a userspace
datapath action, or the PACKET_IN messages must be sent at the time
the data is available.  This patch implements the latter.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2012-01-10 14:30:15 -08:00
Ethan Jackson
5bbda0aab1 odp-util: Move commit_odp_actions() from ofproto-dpif.
In an effort to simplify ofproto-dpif, this commit moves the
definition of commit_odp_actions() to odp-util.
2011-11-28 15:47:48 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
b0f7b9b5c9 ofproto-dpif: Support differing user/kernel packet parsing support.
Feature #4886.
2011-11-23 13:19:53 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
7202cbe552 odp-util: New function odp_actions_from_string().
An upcoming commit will add a user.  The only planned users for now are
part of unit tests themselves, so it doesn't seem important to unit test
it.
2011-11-17 10:11:54 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
b2a60db8e4 odp-util: Add support for named ports to odp_flow_key_from_string().
Really the "trace" command should support this but in fact I need it for
an upcoming update to a test.
2011-11-17 10:11:54 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
39db78a0fb odp-util: New function factored out of put_userspace_action().
An upcoming patch to odp-util will add a new user, but this seems like a
reasonable change in any case.
2011-11-17 10:11:54 -08:00
Justin Pettit
a61680c6d1 Support matching and modifying IP TTL.
Add support matching the IPv4 TTL and IPv6 hop limit fields.  This
commit also adds support for modifying the IPv4 TTL.  Modifying the IPv6
hop limit isn't currently supported, since we don't support modifying
IPv6 headers.

We will likely want to change the user-space interface, since basic
matching and setting the TTL are not generally useful.  We will probably
want the ability to match on extraordinary events (such as TTL of 0 or 1)
and a decrement action.

Feature #8024

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-11-09 13:24:52 -08:00
Justin Pettit
9e44d71563 Don't overload IP TOS with the frag matching bits.
This will be useful later when we add support for matching the ECN bits
within the TOS field.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-11-09 10:37:57 -08:00
Justin Pettit
fa8223b7fd Support matching IPv6 flow label.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-11-09 10:37:55 -08:00
Jesse Gross
cdb1a85bba datapath: Renumber non-upstreamable interfaces.
The interfaces related to tunneling aren't finalized enough to be
sent upstream but we also still want to retain them in the OVS
repository.  Since userspace should be compatible with both versions
of the kernel, this renumbers the tunnel interfaces to high numbers
so that we can continue to add new interfaces without conflict.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2011-11-07 18:24:36 -08:00
Pravin B Shelar
abff858b5a datapath: Convert kernel priority actions into match/set.
Following patch adds skb-priority to flow key. So userspace will know
what was priority when packet arrived and we can remove the pop/reset
priority action. It's no longer necessary to have a special action for
pop that is based on the kernel remembering original skb->priority.
Userspace can just emit a set priority action with the original value.

Since the priority field is a match field with just a normal set action,
we can convert it into the new model for actions that are based on
matches.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Bug #7715
2011-11-01 10:13:16 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
4edb9ae90e datapath: Refactor actions in terms of match fields.
Almost all current actions can be expressed in the form of
push/pop/set <field>, where field is one of the match fields. We can
create three base actions and take a field. This has both a nice
symmetry and avoids inconsistencies where we can match on the vlan
TPID but not set it.
Following patch converts all actions to this new format.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Bug #7115
2011-10-21 14:38:54 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
077257b83c datapath-protocol: Rename to <linux/openvswitch.h>.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Bug #7559.
2011-10-12 16:27:09 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
5fa270099a datapath-protocol: Remove #include <linux/netlink.h>.
Bug #7559.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-12 16:27:08 -07:00
Pravin Shelar
6ff686f2bc sFlow: Genericize/simplify kernel sFlow implementation
Following patch adds sampling action which takes probability and set
of actions as arguments. When probability is hit, actions are executed for
given packet.
USERSPACE action's userdata (u64) is used to store struct
user_action_cookie as cookie. CONTROLLER action is fixed accordingly.

Now we can remove sFlow code from kernel and implement sFlow generically
as SAMPLE action. sFlow is defined as SAMPLE Action with probability (sFlow
sampling rate) and USERSPACE action as argument. USERSPACE action's data
is used as cookie. sFlow uses this cookie to store output-port, number of
output ports and vlan-id. sample-pool is calculated by using vport
stats.

Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2011-09-28 10:43:07 -07:00
Justin Pettit
df2c07f433 datapath: Use "OVS_*" as opposed to "ODP_*" for user<->kernel interactions.
The prefix "ODP_*" is not overly descriptive in the context of the
larger Linux tree.  This commit changes the prefix to "OVS_*" for the
userpace to kernel interactions.  The userspace libraries still use
"ODP_" in many of their interfaces since it is more descriptive in the
OVS oeuvre.

Feature #6904

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-08-19 22:48:23 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
3bffc610fa odp-util: New function odp_flow_key_from_string().
This will be used in upcoming commits.
2011-08-08 13:14:01 -07:00
Ben Pfaff
19cf40693d odp-util: Replace ODPUTIL_FLOW_KEY_U32S by new struct odputil_keybuf.
This seems to me to better encapsulate the inherent ugliness.
2011-03-30 15:08:47 -07:00
Justin Pettit
18c4363158 datapath: Better calculate max nlattr-formatted flow size.
Both userspace and the kernel allocate space based on the max size of a
nlattr-formatted flow.  It was easy to change the max size of a flow
definition and cause crashes by forgetting to update one or both of
those definitions.  This commit attempts to make that harder by
providing a better description of how the max size is calculated and a
build check to look for a common indication that it may have changed.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-02-07 15:40:35 -08:00
Justin Pettit
7d332293f8 datapath: Increase size of max nlattr-formatted flow to 132.
The addition of IPv6 matching increased the maximum size of a
nlattr-formatted flow.  This was not properly reflected in the userspace
and kernel #defines that reserve space for the flows and could lead to
crashes.  This commit increases the size uniformly to 132 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-02-07 15:40:35 -08:00
Justin Pettit
685a51a5b8 nicira-ext: Support matching IPv6 Neighbor Discovery messages.
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>
2011-02-02 13:22:34 -08:00
Justin Pettit
d31f1109f1 nicira-ext: Support matching IPv6 traffic.
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>
2011-02-02 12:53:26 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
c75d4dcf95 datapath: Get rid of ODPP_NONE.
This definition wasn't actually useful for the kernel--the only place that
it was used it didn't really have to be, so this commit removes it from
datapath-protocol.h.  It is still marginally useful in userspace, at least
as a value that converts to and from OpenFlow port number OFPP_NONE, so
move it to odp-util.c.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-01-27 21:08:40 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
c97fb13280 dpif: Eliminate "struct odp_flow_stats" from client-visible interface.
Following this commit, "struct odp_flow_stats" is only used in
Linux-specific parts of OVS userspace code.  This allows the actual Linux
datapath interface to evolve more freely.

Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
2011-01-27 21:08:38 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
feebdea2e5 dpif: Eliminate "struct odp_flow" from client-visible interface.
Following this commit, "struct odp_flow" and related data structures are
only used in Linux-specific parts of OVS userspace code.  This allows the
actual Linux datapath interface to evolve more freely.

Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
2011-01-27 21:08:38 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
ffeda91a47 ovs-dpctl: Use netdev_get_config() to print vport configurations.
This is cleaner than parsing "odp_port"s directly.  It takes one step
toward eliminating use of odp_port from any userspace code outside of
lib/netdev-vport.c and lib/dpif-linux.c.

Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
2011-01-27 21:08:37 -08:00
Ben Pfaff
36956a7d33 datapath: Convert odp_flow_key to use Netlink attributes instead.
One of the goals for Open vSwitch is to decouple kernel and userspace
software, so that either one can be upgraded or rolled back independent of
the other.  To do this in full generality, it must be possible to change
the kernel's idea of the flow key separately from the userspace version.
In turn, that means that flow keys must become variable-length.  This
commit makes that change using Netlink attribute sequences.

This commit does not actually make userspace flexible enough to handle
changes in the kernel flow key structure, because userspace doesn't yet
have enough information to do that intelligently.  Upcoming commits will
fix that.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-01-27 21:08:35 -08:00