Returning a static data buffer makes code more brittle and definitely
not thread-safe, so this commit switches to using a caller-provided
buffer instead.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This commit adds a function to lib/netdev.c to check that the interface name
is not the same as any of the registered vport providers' dpif_port name
(e.g. gre_system) or the datapath's internal port name (e.g. ovs-system).
Bug #15077.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch removes the final bit of linux specific code which
prevents building netdev-vport everywhere. With this, other
platforms automatically get access to patch ports, and (if their
datapath supports it), flow based tunneling.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
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>
In future patches, a netdev's datapath port name may not
necessarily be the same as its device name. This patch prepares for
this by making the distinction in the netdev and dpif layers.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
This commit moves responsibility for implementing patch ports from
the datapath to ofproto-dpif. There are two main reasons to do
this.
The first is a matter of design: ofproto-dpif both has more
information than the datapath, and is better suited to handle the
complexity required to implement patch ports.
The second is performance. My setup is a virtual machine with two
basic learning bridges connected by patch ports. I used
ovs-benchmark to ping the virtual router IP residing outside the
VM. Over a 60 second run, "ovs-benchmark rate" improves from
14618.1 to 19311.9 transactions per second, or a 32% improvement.
Similarly, "ovs-benchmark latency" improves from 6ms to 4ms.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Future patches will need to know the details of a netdev's tunnel
configuration from outside the netdev library.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
The only user of netdev_set_stats() is bonding (for updating the
fake interface). This interface is never a vport, so it seems
quite a bit cleaner to keep the relevant code in the netdev-linux
library where it's needed, instead of in netdev-vport, where it
adds needless complexity.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@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>
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>
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 add new
features to the kernel vport layer without changing userspace software.
The customary way to do this in the Linux networking stack is to use
Netlink and in particular Netlink attributes. This commit adopts that
model for the vport layer. It does not yet actually start using the
Netlink socket layer, which will come later.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
For some time now, Open vSwitch datapaths have internally made a
distinction between adding a vport and attaching it to a datapath. Adding
a vport just means to create it, as an entity detached from any datapath.
Attaching it gives it a port number and a datapath. Similarly, a vport
could be detached and deleted separately.
After some study, I think I understand why this distinction exists. It is
because ovs-vswitchd tries to open all the datapath ports before it tries
to create them. However, changing it to create them before it tries to
open them is not difficult, so this commit does this.
The bulk of this commit, however, changes the datapath interface to one
that always creates a vport and attaches it to a datapath in a single step,
and similarly detaches a vport and deletes it in a single step.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The only real difference between netdev-patch and netdev-tunnel is in their
parse_config() implementation. That's a lot of extra code to maintain, for
questionable benefit. This commit merges them into the netdev-vport code,
which was heretofore merely a collection of helper functions.
In certain cases we require the ability to provide stats that are
added to the values collected by the kernel (currently only used
by bond fake devices). Internal devices previously implemented
this directly but now that their stats are now handled by the vport
layer the functionality has been moved there. This removes the
userspace code to set the stats and replaces it with a mechanism
to access the equivalent functionality in the vport layer.
