The unixctl library had used the vde2 management protocol since the
early days of Open vSwitch. As Open vSwitch has matured, several
Python daemons have been added to the code base which would benefit
from a unixctl implementations. Instead of implementing the old
unixctl protocol in Python, this patch changes unixctl to use JSON
RPC for which we already have an implementation in both Python and
C. Future patches will need to implement a unixctl library in
Python on top of JSON RPC.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Plain "--enable-dummy" just creates new dummy dpif and netdev classes.
This commit makes "--enable-dummy=override" go a step farther and actually
delete and replace all the existing dpif and netdev classes by copies of
the dummy class.
This is useful for testing in an environment where changing the classes in
Bridge or Interface records is challenging.
Requested-by: Andrew Lambeth <wal@nicira.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Lambeth <wal@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
netdev_find_dev_by_in4() appears to no longer be used and thus
can be removed. This also allows netdev_enumerate(), the
enumerate member of struct netdev_class and netdev_linux_enumerate()
to be removed.
I noticed this as netdev_linux_enumerate() makes use of if_nameindex()
and if_freenameindex() which are not available when compiling using
the Android NDK r6b (Android API level 13).
There is no need to have vport attribute MTU (OVS_VPORT_ATTR_MTU) as
linux net-dev-ioctl can be used to get/set MTU for linux device.
Following patch removes OVS_VPORT_ATTR_MTU from datapath protocol.
This patch also adds netdev_set_mtu interface. So that MTU adjustments
can be done from OVS userspace. get_mtu() interface is also changed, now
get_mtu() returns EOPNOTSUPP rather than returning 0 and setting *pmtu
to INT_MAX in case there is no MTU attribute for given device.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Until now, each call to netdev_open() for a particular network device
had to either specify a set of network device arguments that was either
empty or (for devices that already existed) equal to the existing device's
configuration. Unfortunately, the definition of "equality" in the latter
case was mostly done in terms of strict equality of string-to-string maps,
which caused problems in cases where, for example, one set of arguments
specified the default value of an optional argument explicitly and the
other omitted it.
The netdev interface does have provisions for defining equality other ways,
but this had only been done in one case that was especially problematic in
practice. One way to solve this particular problem would be to carefully
define equality in all the problematic cases.
This commit takes another approach based on the realization that there is
really no need to do any comparisons. Instead, it removes configuration
at netdev_open() time entirely, because almost all of netdev_open()'s
callers are not interested in creating and configuring a netdev. Most of
them just want to open a configured device and use it. Therefore, this
commit stops providing any configuration arguments to netdev_open() and the
provider functions that it calls. Instead, a caller that does want to
configure a device does so after it opens it, by calling
netdev_set_config().
This change allows us to simplify the netdev interface a bit. There is no
longer any need to implement argument comparisons. As a result, there is
also no need for "struct netdev_dev" to keep track of configuration at all.
Instead, the network devices that have configuration keep track of it in
their own internal form.
This new interface does mean that it becomes possible to accidentally
create and try to use an unconfigured netdev that requires configuration.
Bug #6677.
Reported-by: Paul Ingram <paul@nicira.com>
The Open vSwitch tree only has one user of the ability for a netdev to
receive packets from a network device. Thus, this commit simplifies the
common-case use of the netdev interface by replacing the "ethertype" option
from "struct netdev_options" by a new netdev_listen() call.
The only user of netdev_listen() wants to receive all packets from a
network device, so this commit also removes the ability to restrict the
received packets to a particular protocol. (This ability was once used by
the Open vSwitch integrated DHCP client, but that code has been removed.)
This commit also simplifies and improves the implementation of the code
in netdev-linux that started listening to a network device. Before, I had
not figured out how to avoid receiving all packets on all devices before
binding to a particular device, but I took a closer look at the kernel code
and figured it out.
I've tested that the userspace datapath (dpif-netdev), the only user of
netdev_recv(), still works after this change.
When doing a netdev_open(), a check is first done to make sure the
arguments are equivalent for any open devices with the same name. In
most cases, a simple shash comparison is sufficient. However, IPsec
key configuration is handled by an external program, so it is not pushed
down into the kernel module. Thus, when the "unparse_config" method is
called on an existing IPsec-based vport, a simple comparison with the
returned data will not match the original configuration. This commit
adds code to allow netdev-specific argument comparisons and has
"ipsec_gre" make use of them.
Bug #5575
This gives network device implementations the opportunity to fetch an
existing device's configuration and store it as their arguments, so that
netdev clients can find out how an existing device is configured.
So far netdev-vport is the only implementation that needs to use this.
The next commit will add use by clients.
Reviewed by Justin Pettit.
This commit removes the tunnel_egress_iface column from the
interface table and moves it's data to the status column. In the
process it reverts the database to version 1.0.0.
