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
