ofp-util had been far too large and monolithic for a long time. This
commit breaks it up into units that make some logical sense. It also
moves the pieces of ofp-parse that were specific to each unit into the
relevant unit.
Most of this commit is just moving code around.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
a crash is seen in "netdev_ports_remove" when an interface is deleted and added
back in the system and when the interface is part of a bridge configuration.
e.g. steps:
create a tap0 interface using "ip tuntap add.."
add the tap0 interface to br0 using "ovs-vsctl add-port.."
delete the tap0 interface from system using "ip tuntap del.."
add the tap0 interface back in system using "ip tuntap add.."
(this changes the ifindex of the interface)
delete tap0 from br0 using "ovs-vsctl del-port.."
In the function "netdev_ports_insert", two hmap entries were created for
mapping "portnum -> netdev" and "ifindex -> portnum".
When the interface is deleted from the system, the "netdev_ports_remove"
function is not getting called and the old ifindex entry is not getting
cleaned up from the "ifindex_to_port" hmap.
As part of the fix, added function "dpif_port_remove" which will call
"netdev_ports_remove" in the path where the interface deletion from the system
is detected.
Also, in "netdev_ports_remove", added the code where the "ifindex_to_port_data"
(ifindex -> portnum map node) is getting freed when the ifindex is not
available any more. (as the interface is already deleted.)
VMware-BZ: #1975788
Signed-off-by: Ashish Varma <ashishvarma.ovs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
It's basically what is being passed today and passing a specific
type adds a compiler type check.
Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Usage:
# to dump all datapath flows (default):
ovs-dpctl dump-flows
# to dump only flows that in kernel datapath:
ovs-dpctl dump-flows type=ovs
# to dump only flows that are offloaded:
ovs-dpctl dump-flows type=offloaded
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
To use netdev flow offloading api, dpifs needs to iterate over
added ports. This addition inserts the added dpif ports in a hash map,
The map will also be used to translate dpif ports to netdevs.
Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Allow actions to be part of the probe. No functional changes.
Future patch will make use this new API.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Add DPIF-level infrastructure for meters. Allow meter_set to modify
the meter configuration (e.g. set the burst size if unspecified).
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@ovn.org>
Currently we parse the 'other_config' column in Openvswitch table in
bridge.c. We extract the values (just 'pmd-cpu-mask' for now) and we
pass them down to the datapath, via different layers.
If we want to pass other values to dpif-netdev.c (like we recently
discussed) we would have to touch ofproto.c, ofproto-dpif.c and dpif.c.
This patch sends the entire other_config column to dpif-netdev, so that
dpif-netdev can extract the values it's interested in.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Currently dpctl depends on ovs-numa module to delete and create flows on
different pmd threads for pmd devices.
The next commits will move away the pmd threads state from ovs-numa to
dpif-netdev, so the ovs-numa interface will not be supported.
Also, the assignment between ports and thread is an implementation
detail of dpif-netdev, dpctl shouldn't know anything about it.
This commit changes the dpif_flow_put() and dpif_flow_del() calls to
iterate over all the pmd threads, if pmd_id is PMD_ID_NULL.
A simple test is added.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
There are many docs that don't need to kept at the top level, along
with many more hidden in random folders. Move them all.
This also allows us to add the '-W' flag to Sphinx, ensuring unindexed
docs result in build failures.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
By reordering the data elements in dpif_upcall structure, pad bytes can
be reduced and also a cache line. Also dp_packet should be the first
member of the structure because rte_mbuf, the first member of dp_packet
should be aligned atleast on a 64-byte boundary.
Before: structure size:768, holes:1, sum padbytes:60, cachelines:12
After: structure size:704, holes:1, sum padbytes:4, cachelines:11
Signed-off-by: Bhanuprakash Bodireddy <bhanuprakash.bodireddy@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Fischetti <antonio.fischetti@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Fischetti <antonio.fischetti@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
There's a lot of code in netdev-dpdk which is not at all related to the
netdev interface, mostly the library initialization code.
This commit moves it to a new 'dpdk' module, to simplify 'netdev-dpdk'.
Also a new module 'dpdk-stub' is introduced to implement some functions
when DPDK is not available. This replaces the old 'netdev-nodpdk'
module.
Some redundant includes are removed or reorganized as a consequence.
No functional change.
CC: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
This commit adds functionality to pass value of 'other_config' column
of 'Interface' table to datapath.
This may be used to pass not directly connected with netdev options and
configure behaviour of the datapath for different ports.
For example: pinning of rx queues to polling threads in dpif-netdev.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
The patch adds a new action to support packet truncation. The new action
is formatted as 'output(port=n,max_len=m)', as output to port n, with
packet size being MIN(original_size, m).
One use case is to enable port mirroring to send smaller packets to the
destination port so that only useful packet information is mirrored/copied,
saving some performance overhead of copying entire packet payload. Example
use case is below as well as shown in the testcases:
- Output to port 1 with max_len 100 bytes.
- The output packet size on port 1 will be MIN(original_packet_size, 100).
# ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 'actions=output(port=1,max_len=100)'
- The scope of max_len is limited to output action itself. The following
packet size of output:1 and output:2 will be intact.
# ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 \
'actions=output(port=1,max_len=100),output:1,output:2'
- The Datapath actions shows:
# Datapath actions: trunc(100),1,1,2
Tested-at: https://travis-ci.org/williamtu/ovs-travis/builds/140037134
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
All the callers of the function already have a copy of the extracted
flow in their stack (or a few frames before).
This is useful for different resons:
* It forces the callers to also call flow_extract() on the packet, which
is necessary to initialize the l2,l3,l4 pointers.
* It will be used in the userspace datapath to generate the RSS hash by
a following commit
* It can be used by the userspace connection tracker to avoid extracting
the l3 type again.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Currently, all of the PMD netdevs can only have the same number of
rx queues, which is specified in other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs.
Fix that by introducing of new option for PMD interfaces: 'n_rxq', which
specifies the maximum number of rx queues to be created for this
interface.
Example:
ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk0 options:n_rxq=8
Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' deleted.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
User space now may receive re-assembled IP fragments. The user space
netlink handler can now accept packets with the new OVS_PACKET_ATTR_MRU
attribute. This allows the kernel to assemble fragmented packets for the
duration of OpenFlow processing, then re-fragment at output time. Most
notably this occurs for packets that are sent through the connection
tracker.
Note that the MRU attribute is not exported at the OpenFlow layer. As
such, if packets are reassembled by conntrack and subsequently sent to
the controller, then OVS has no way to re-serialize the packets to their
original size.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
When dpdk configuration changes, all pmd threads are recreated
and rx queues of each port are reloaded. After this process,
rx queue could be mapped to a different pmd thread other than
the one before reconfiguration. However, this is totally
transparent to ofproto layer modules. So, if the ofproto-dpif-upcall
module still holds ukeys generated before pmd thread recreation,
this old ukey will collide with the ukey for the new upcalls
from same traffic flow, causing flow installation failure.
To fix the bug, this commit adds a new call-back function
in dpif layer for notifying upper layer the purging of datapath
(e.g. pmd thread deletion in dpif-netdev). So, the
ofproto-dpif-upcall module can react properly with deleting
the ukeys and with collecting flows' last stats.
Reported-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <ee07b291@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Packets are still sampled at ingress only, so the egress
tunnel and/or MPLS structures are only included when there is just 1 output
port. The actions are either provided by the datapath in the sample upcall
or looked up in the userspace cache. The former is preferred because it is
more reliable and does not present any new demands or constraints on the
userspace cache, however the code falls back on the userspace lookup so that
this solution can work with existing kernel datapath modules. If the lookup
fails it is not critical: the compiled user-action-cookie is still available
and provides the essential output port and output VLAN forwarding information
just as before.
The openvswitch actions can express almost any tunneling/mangling so the only
totally faithful representation would be to somehow encode the whole list of
flow actions in the sFlow output. However the standard sFlow tunnel structures
can express most common real-world scenarios, so in parsing the actions we
look for those and skip the encoding if we see anything unusual. For example,
a single set(tunnel()) or tnl_push() is interpreted, but if a second such
action is encountered then the egress tunnel reporting is suppressed.
The sFlow standard allows "best effort" encoding so that if a field is not
knowable or too onerous to look up then it can be left out. This is often
the case for the layer-4 source port or even the src ip address of a tunnel.
The assumption is that monitoring is enabled everywhere so a missing field
can typically be seen at ingress to the next switch in the path.
This patch also adds unit tests to check the sFlow encoding of set(tunnel()),
tnl_push() and push_mpls() actions.
The netlink attribute to request that actions be included in the upcall
from the datapath is inserted for sFlow sampling only. To make that option
be explicit would require further changes to the printing and parsing of
actions in lib/odp-util.c, and to scripts in the test suite.
Further enhancements to report on 802.1AD QinQ, 64-bit tunnel IDs, and NAT
transformations can follow in future patches that make only incremental
changes.
Signed-off-by: Neil McKee <neil.mckee@inmon.com>
[blp@nicira.com made stylistic and semantic changes]
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
DPDK lcore_id is unsigned. We need to support big values like
LCORE_ID_ANY (=UINT32_MAX). Therefore I am changing the type everywhere
in OVS.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Currently dp-packet make use of ofpbuf for managing packet
buffers. That complicates ofpbuf, by making dp-packet
independent of ofpbuf both libraries can be optimized for
their own use case.
This avoids mapping operation between ofpbuf and dp_packet
in datapath upcalls.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commit changes the per dpif-netdev datapath flow-table/
classifier to per pmd-thread. As direct benefit, datapath
and flow statistics no longer need to be protected by mutex
or be declared as per-thread variable, since they are only
written by the owning pmd thread.
As side effects, the flow-dump output of userspace datapath
can contain overlapping flows. To reduce confusion, the dump
from different pmd thread will be separated by a title line.
In addition, the flow operations via 'ovs-appctl dpctl/*'
are modified so that if the given flow in_port corresponds
to a dpdk interface, the operation will be conducted to all
pmd threads recv from that interface (expect for flow-get
which will always be applied to non-pmd threads).
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Mark D. Gray <mark.d.gray@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Previously, the dpif layer was responsible for determining datapath
support for UFIDs, which resulted in all ovs-dpctl utilities
inserting/deleting flows from the datapath each time they are run.
Shift this responsibility up to the dpif_backer.
There are two users of this functionality: Revalidators check for UFID
support to request a terser dump using UFIDs, and dpif-netlink uses this
to request flow_del operations to only return the UFID/stats. The latter
case was previously hidden from revalidators, but this change makes them
aware of it, and reuses the same "udpif->enable_ufid" flag for reducing
overhead of both flow dump and flow delete.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Various functions in ofproto-dpif and dpif-netlink detect support for
features in very similar ways. Refactor their common code to a single
function.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
One of the limiting factors on the number of flows that can be supported
in the datapath is the overhead of assembling flow dump messages in the
datapath. This patch modifies the dpif to allow revalidators to skip
dumping the key, mask and actions from the datapath, by making use of
the unique flow identifiers introduced in earlier patches.
For each flow dump, the dpif user specifies whether to skip these
attributes, allowing the common case to only dump a pair of 128-bit ID
and flow stats. With datapath support, this increases the number of
flows that a revalidator can handle per second by 50% or more. Support
in dpif-netdev and dpif-netlink is added in this patch; kernel support
is left for future patches.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch modifies the dpif interface to allow flows to be manipulated
using a 128-bit identifier. This allows revalidator threads to perform
datapath operations faster, as they do not need to serialise the entire
flow key for operations like flow_get and flow_delete. In conjunction
with a future patch to simplify the dump interface, this provides a
significant performance benefit for revalidation.
When handlers assemble flow_put operations, they specify a unique
identifier (UFID) for each flow as it is passed down to the datapath to
be stored with the flow. The UFID is currently provided to handlers
by the dpif during upcall processing.
When revalidators assemble flow_get or flow_del operations, they may
specify the UFID for the flow along with the key. The dpif will decide
whether to send only the UFID to the datapath, or both the UFID and flow
key. The former is preferred for newer datapaths that support UFID,
while the latter is used for backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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>
Converts the majority of docs over to use the Markdown language for
pretty printing on GitHub. It's a rough first convertion without
exploiting the full potential of Markdown at this point. Section
titles and indentation are fixed as needed. Minimal docs interlinking
is added.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.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>
Extend IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers when both input and output
of the port.
Add three other_config options in IPFIX table: enable-input-sampling,
enable-output-sampling and enable-tunnel-sampling, to control whether
sampling tunnel info, on which direction (input or output).
Insert sampling action before output action and the output tunnel port
is sent to datapath in the sampling action.
Make datapath collect output tunnel info and send it back to userpace
in upcall message with a new additional optional attribute.
Add a tunnel ports map to make the tunnel port lookup faster in sampling
upcalls in IPFIX exporter. Make the IPFIX exporter generate IPFIX template
sets with enterprise elements for the tunnel info, save the tunnel info
in IPFIX cache entries, and send IPFIX DATA with tunnel info.
Add flowDirection element in IPFIX templates.
Signed-off-by: Wenyu Zhang <wenyuz@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
This patch avoids the relatively inefficient miss handling processes
dictated by the dpif process, by calling into ofproto-dpif directly
through a callback.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This cleans up the dpif interface to make it more consistent with the
other dpif operations, and allows flows to be fetched in batches.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The dpif provider 'operate' call duplicates all of the features available
from the 'flow_put', 'flow_del', and 'execute' calls, yielding redundant
code in providers that support both mechanisms. This change drops the
latter calls in favor of making every dpif provider support 'operate'.
The result is code that is overall less duplicative.
It might make sense to do the same with flow_get but so far 'operate'
doesn't support flow_get.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Until now, the OVS source tree has had a whole maze of header files that
make "#include <linux/openvswitch.h>" work OK regardless of platform, but
this confuses everyone new to the tree, at first glance, and is difficult
to understand at second glance too.
This commit renames include/linux/openvswitch.h to
datapath/linux/compat/include/linux/openvswitch.h without other change,
then modifies the userspace build to generate a header that makes sense in
portable Open vSwitch userspace from that header.
It then removes all the remaining include/linux/* files since they are now
unused.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Typically, kernel datapath threads send upcalls to userspace where
handler threads process the upcalls. For TAP and DPDK devices, the
datapath threads operate in userspace, so there is no need for
separate handler threads.
This patch allows userspace datapath threads to directly call the
ofproto upcall functions, eliminating the need for handler threads
for datapaths of type 'netdev'.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <wryan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Change the interface to allow implementations to pass back a buffer, and
allow callers to specify which of actions, mask, and stats they wish to
receive. This will be used in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Commit a6ce4b9d25 (ofproto-dpif-upcall: Avoid use-after-free in
revalidate() corner case.) showed that it is somewhat tricky to correctly
use the existing dpif flow dumping interface to obtain batches of flows.
One has to be careful about calling dpif_flow_dump_next_may_destroy_keys()
before going on to the next flow.
A better interface is possible, one that is naturally oriented toward
retrieving batches when that is a useful optimization. This commit
replaces the dpif interface by such a design, and updates both the
implementations and the callers to adopt it.
This is a fairly large change, but I think that the code in
ofproto-dpif-upcall is easier to understand after the change.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commit changes the API in 'dpif-provider.h' to allow multiple
handler threads call dpif_recv() simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This new function allows callers to determine whether previously
returned keys will be modified or reallocated on the next call to
dpif_flow_dump_next(). This will be used in a future commit to allow
batched flow deletion by revalidator threads.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Recent changes to the flow_dump_next() interface have made it the
responsibility of the dpif implementation to track error status over a
flow dump operation.
This patch removes status tracking from 'struct dpif_flow_dump', allowing
multiple threads to call dpif_flow_dump_next() and track their status
independently. Even if one thread finishes processing flows for a given
iterator and state, it will not prevent other callers from processing
the remaining flows in their buffers.
After this patch, the error code that dpif_flow_dump_next() returns is
only significant for the current state and buffer. As before, the status
of the entire flow dump operation can be obtained by calling
dpif_flow_dump_done().
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch makes it the caller's responsibility to initialize a
per-thread 'state' object and pass it down to the dpif_flow_dump_next()
implementation. The implementation can expect to be called from multiple
threads with the same 'iter' and different 'state' objects.
When flow_dump_next() returns non-zero, the implementation must ensure
that subsequent calls with the same arguments also return non-zero.
Subsequent calls with the same 'iter' and different 'state' may return
zero, but should make progress towards returning non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch separates the structures for thread-local flow dump state
("state") from the shared flow dump state ("iter") in dpif-linux and
dpif-netdev. Future patches will make use of this to allow multiple
threads to dump flows from the same flow dump operation.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This helps reduce confusion about when a flow is a flow and when it is
just metadata.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
