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>
Since dpif_netdev_enumerate() is used for "netdev" and "dummy" class, it
incorrectly lists dpif-netdevs as "dummy" and vice versa.
This patches address the issue by changing the dpif-provider interface: a
dpif_class parameter is passed to the 'enumerate' call to match the right class.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <ddiproietto@vmware.com>
Signed-off-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>
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>
Commit da546e0 (dpif: Allow execute to modify the packet.) uninitializes
the "dpif_upcall.packet" of "struct upcall" when dpif_recv() returns error.
The packet ofpbuf is likely uninitialized in this case, hence calling
ofpbuf_uninit() on it will likely cause a SEGFAULT.
This commit fixes this bug by only uninitializing packet's ofpbuf on
successfully received upcalls.
A note warning about this is added on the comment of dpif_recv() in
dpif.c and dpif-provider.h.
Reported-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Allowing the packet to be modified by execution allows less data
copying for userspace action execution. Some users of the
dpif_execute already expect that the packet may be modified. This
patch makes this behavior uniform and makes the userspace datapath and
the execution helpers modify the packet as it is being executed.
Userspace action now steals the packet if given permission, as the
packet is normally not needed after it. The only exception is the
sample action, and this is accounted for my keeping track of any
actions that could be following the userspace action.
The packet in dpif_upcall is changed from a pointer to a struct,
allowing the packet to be honest about it's headroom. After this
change the packet can safely be pushed on over the precarious 4 byte
limit earlier allowed by the netlink data preceding the packet.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The declaration of 'get_max_ports()' to return odp_port_t adds
unwanted complexity to coding. This commit changes it back to
return uint32_t type.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Until now, datapath ports and openflow ports were both represented by
unsigned integers of various sizes. With implicit conversions, etc., it is
easy to mix them up and use one where the other is expected. This commit
creates two typedefs, ofp_port_t and odp_port_t. Both of these two types
are marked by "__attribute__((bitwise))" so that sparse can be used to
detect any misuse.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Added support to allow mega flow specified and displayed. ovs-dpctl tool
is mainly used as debugging tool.
This patch also implements the low level user space routines to send
and receive mega flow netlink messages. Those netlink suppor
routines are required for forthcoming user space mega flow patches.
Added a unit test to test parsing and display of mega flows.
Ethan contributed the ovs-dpctl mega flow output function.
Co-authored-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This is a straight search-and-replace, except that I also removed #include
<assert.h> from each file where there were no assert calls left.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Depending on the port and type of datapath, a port may need to be opened
as a different type of device than it's configured. For example, an
"internal" port on a "dummy" datapath should opened as a "dummy" port.
This commit adds the ability for a dpif to provide this information to a
caller. It will be used in a future commit.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Provide the ability to determine whether a port exists in a datapath
without having to deal with a "dpif_port" structure as with
dpif_port_query_by_name(). A future patch will use this function.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
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>
Soon the kernel will begin supplying the information about the outer
IP header for tunneled packets and userspace will need to be able to
track it as part of the flow. For the time being this is only used
internally by OVS and not exposed outwards to OpenFlow. As a result,
this threads the information throughout userspace but simply stores
the existing tun_id in it.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The datapath allows requesting a specific port number for a port, but
the dpif interface didn't expose it. This commit adds that support.
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Until now, packets for these special protocols have been mixed with general
traffic in the kernel-to-userspace queues. This means that a big-enough
storm of new flows in these queues can cause packets for these special
protocols to be dropped at this interface, fooling userspace into believing
that, say, no CFM packets have been received even though they are arriving
at the expected rate.
This commit moves special protocols to a dedicated kernel-to-userspace
queue to avoid the problem.
Bug #7550.
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>
Until now, a "flow put" has represented its parameters in two different
ways, depending on whether it was coming from dpif_flow_put() or from
dpif_operate(), and similarly for an "execute" operation. This commit
adopts the operation struct consistently within the dpif provider
interface, which seems cleaner.
This commit also factors out logging for flow puts and executes, which
is useful in the following commit.
This doesn't change the dpif client interface, since the two forms are
more convenient for clients than always filling out an operation struct.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
I'd like to change ->dpif_flow_put() and ->dpif_execute() in the dpif
provider to take the structures of the same names as parameters, instead of
passing them discrete parameters, because this seems like a more sensible
way to do things internally than to have two different ways to pass the
parameters. It might even simplify code slightly. But ->flow_put() and
->execute() wouldn't want the 'type' (because it's implied by the function
being called) or 'error' (because it would be the same as the return
value). Although of course they could just ignore those members, it seems
slightly cleaner to omit them entirely, as this change allows.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
At one point in the past, there were three separate queues between the
kernel module and OVS userspace, each of which corresponded to a Netlink
socket (or, before that, to a character device). It made sense to allow
each of these to be enabled or disabled separately, hence the "listen mask"
concept in the dpif layer.
These days, the concept is much less clear-cut. Queuing is no longer on
the basis of different classes of packets but instead striped across a
collection of sockets based on input port. It doesn't really make sense
to enable receiving packets on the basis of the kind of packet anymore.
Accordingly, this commit simplifies the "listen_mask" to just a bool that
either enables or disables receiving packets.
It could be useful to enable or disable receiving packets on a per-vport
basis, but the rest of the code isn't ready to make use of that so this
commit doesn't generalize this much.
Based on this discussion on ovs-dev:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012044.html
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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
Until now, OVS has handled IP fragments more awkwardly than necessary. It
has not been possible to match on L4 headers, even in fragments with offset
0 where they are actually present. This means that there was no way to
implement ACLs that treat, say, different TCP ports differently, on
fragmented traffic; instead, all decisions for fragment forwarding had to
be made on the basis of L2 and L3 headers alone.
This commit improves the situation significantly. It is still not possible
to match on L4 headers in fragments with nonzero offset, because that
information is simply not present in such fragments, but this commit adds
the ability to match on L4 headers for fragments with zero offset. This
means that it becomes possible to implement ACLs that drop such "first
fragments" on the basis of L4 headers. In practice, that effectively
blocks even fragmented traffic on an L4 basis, because the receiving IP
stack cannot reassemble a full packet when the first fragment is missing.
This commit works by adding a new "fragment type" to the kernel flow match
and making it available through OpenFlow as a new NXM field named
NXM_NX_IP_FRAG. Because OpenFlow 1.0 explicitly says that the L4 fields
are always 0 for IP fragments, it adds a new OpenFlow fragment handling
mode that fills in the L4 fields for "first fragments". It also enhances
ovs-ofctl to allow users to configure this new fragment handling mode and
to parse the new field.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Bug #7557.
Commit b063d9f06 "datapath: Use unicast Netlink sockets for upcalls" that
switched from multicast to unicast Netlink for sending upcalls added a
Netlink PID to each kernel flow, used by OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE actions
within the flow as target.
This commit drops this per-flow PID in favor of a per-action PID, because
that is more flexible. It does not yet make use of this additional
flexibility, so behavior should not change.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Bug #7559.
Over time we wish to reduce the number of datapath-protocol.h definitions
used directly outside of Linux-specific code. This commit removes use of
"struct ovs_dp_stats" from platform-independent code.
Bug #7559.
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>
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>
Until now, the tun_id and in_port have been lost when a packet is sent from
the kernel to userspace and then back to the kernel. I didn't think that
this was a problem, but recent behavior made me look closer and see that
it makes a difference if sFlow is turned on or if an
ODP_ATTR_ACTION_CONTROLLER action is present. We could possibly kluge
around those, but for future-proofing it seems better to pass the packet
metadata from userspace to the kernel. That is what this commit does.
This commit introduces a user-kernel protocol break. We could avoid that,
if it is desirable, by making ODP_PACKET_ATTR_KEY optional for
ODP_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE commands.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Until now, the dp_run() and dp_wait() functions had to be called at the top
level of the program because they applied to every open dpif. By replacing
them by functions that take a specific dpif as an argument, we can call
them only from ofproto, which is currently the correct layer to deal with
dpifs.
Jesse suggested this naming scheme, so I'm adjusting existing names to
fit it.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
None of the remaining dpif implementations have more than one name per
dpif, so there's no need for this function anymore.
Suggested-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Nothing was productively using the 'flags' member of odp_flow, so this
commit removes it.
ODPFF_ZERO_TCP_FLAGS isn't used at all (as of the previous commit).
ODPFF_EOF has been replaced by a special case of the 'key_len' member.
This will go away, too, once AF_NETLINK starts being used.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Following this commit, the ODPPF_* constants 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.
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.
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.
This brings the code closer to what the Netlink interface will need to
implement.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
As with n_flows, n_ports was used regularly by userspace to determine how
much memory to allocate when listing ports, but it is no longer needed for
that. max_ports, on the other hand, is necessary but it is also a fixed
value for the kernel datapath right now and if we expand it we can also
come up with a way to report the expanded value.
The remaining members of odp_stats are actually real statistics that I
intend to keep.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This queue information will be available through the kernel socket layer
once we move over to Netlink socket as transports, so we might as well get
rid of the redundancy.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Following this commit, "struct odp_port" 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.
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. In
turn, that means that the odp_port structure must become variable-length.
This does not, however, fit in well with the ODP_PORT_LIST ioctl in its
current form, because that would require userspace to know how much space
to allocate for each port in advance, or to allocate as much space as
could possibly be needed. Neither choice is very attractive.
This commit prepares for a different solution, by replacing ODP_PORT_LIST
by a new ioctl ODP_VPORT_DUMP that retrieves information about a single
vport from the datapath on each call. It is much cleaner to allocate the
maximum amount of space for a single vport than to do so for possibly a
large number of vports.
It would be faster to retrieve a number of vports in batch instead of just
one at a time, but that will naturally happen later when the kernel
datapath interface is changed to use Netlink, so this patch does not bother
with it.
The Netlink version won't need to take the starting port number from
userspace, since Netlink sockets can keep track of that state as part
of their "dump" feature.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@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 change
the kernel's idea of the flow key separately from the userspace version.
This commit takes one step in that direction by making the kernel report
its idea of the flow that a packet belongs to whenever it passes a packet
up to userspace. This means that userspace can intelligently figure out
what to do:
- If userspace's notion of the flow for the packet matches the kernel's,
then nothing special is necessary.
- If the kernel has a more specific notion for the flow than userspace,
for example if the kernel decoded IPv6 headers but userspace stopped
at the Ethernet type (because it does not understand IPv6), then again
nothing special is necessary: userspace can still set up the flow in
the usual way.
- If userspace has a more specific notion for the flow than the kernel,
for example if userspace decoded an IPv6 header but the kernel
stopped at the Ethernet type, then userspace can forward the packet
manually, without setting up a flow in the kernel. (This case is
bad from a performance point of view, but at least it is correct.)
This commit does not actually make userspace flexible enough to handle
changes in the kernel flow key structure, although userspace does now
have enough information to do that intelligently. This will have to wait
for later commits.
This commit is bigger than it would otherwise be because it is rolled
together with changing "struct odp_msg" to a sequence of Netlink
attributes. The alternative, to do each of those changes in a separate
patch, seemed like overkill because it meant that either we would have to
introduce and then kill off Netlink attributes for in_port and tun_id, if
Netlink conversion went first, or shove yet another variable-length header
into the stuff already after odp_msg, if adding the flow key to odp_msg
went first.
This commit will slow down performance of checksumming packets sent up to
userspace. I'm not entirely pleased with how I did it. I considered a
couple of alternatives, but none of them seemed that much better.
Suggestions welcome. Not changing anything wasn't an option,
unfortunately. At any rate some slowdown will become unavoidable when OVS
actually starts using Netlink instead of just Netlink framing.
(Actually, I thought of one option where we could avoid that: make
userspace do the checksum instead, by passing csum_start and csum_offset as
part of what goes to userspace. But that's not perfect either.)
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
