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>
The unit tests feed a lot of flows through the ofproto-dpif "trace"
command, which means that they need to know the port numbers of the ports
that they create. Until now, they've had to actually query those port
numbers from the database, which is a bit of unnecessary overhead for unit
tests.
This commit makes dummy dpif port numbers predictable: if the name of a
port contains a number, then the dummy dpif uses that number, if it is
valid and available, as the port number.
This commit also simplifies the unit tests that previously queried port
numbers to depend on the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Rather than silently skipping ipv6 action generation, following patch
generates OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET action for ipv6. Datapath which do not
support ipv6 action can reject this action.
Bug #8758
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
This commit pulls code used to modify L3 and L4 header fields
from dp_netdev into the packet library. An additional user will
be added in a future commit.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
When dpif-netdev is in use as a "dummy" datapath, the devices that are
added to it have type "dummy", but the dpif methods that report the types
of ports reported that they had type "system". This meant that every time
the bridge code reconfigured, it would see that the ports had the wrong
types and delete and re-add them, which had other undesirable effects such
as flushing the entire MAC learning table whenever ovs-vsctl changed the
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The dpif-netdev implementation disallowed enqueue actions because
it did not support conversion from OVS 'queue_id' to dpif
'priority'. For testing purposes, this patch allows queues which
translate into NOOPs.
In the future it is likely that our vlan support will expand to
include multiply tagged packets. When this happens, we would
ideally like for it to be consistent with our current tagging.
Currently, if we receive a packet with a partial VLAN tag we will
automatically drop it in the kernel, which is unique among the
protocols we support. The only other reason to drop a packet is
a memory allocation error. For a doubly tagged packet, we will
parse the first tag and indicate that another tag was present but
do not drop if the second tag is incorrect as we do not parse it.
This changes the behavior of the vlan parser to match other protocols
and also deeper tags by indicating the presence of a broken tag with
the 802.1Q EtherType but no vlan information. This shifts the policy
decision to userspace on whether to drop broken tags and allows us to
uniformly add new levels of tag parsing.
Although additional levels of control are provided to userspace, this
maintains the current behavior of dropping packets with a broken
tag when using the NORMAL action because that is the correct behavior
for an 802.1Q-aware switch. The userspace flow parser actually
already had the new behavior so this corrects an inconsistency.
Reported-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
When the datapath was converted to use Netlink attributes for describing
flow keys, I had a vague idea of how it could be smoothly extensible, but
I didn't actually implement extensibility or carefully think it through.
This commit adds a document that describes how flow keys can be extended
in a compatible fashion and adapts the existing interface to match what
it says.
This commit doesn't actually implement extensibility. I already have a
separate patch series out for that. This patch series borrows from that
one heavily, but the extensibility series will need to be reworked
somewhat once this one is in.
This commit is only lightly tested because I don't have a good test setup
for VLANs.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Add support matching the IPv4 TTL and IPv6 hop limit fields. This
commit also adds support for modifying the IPv4 TTL. Modifying the IPv6
hop limit isn't currently supported, since we don't support modifying
IPv6 headers.
We will likely want to change the user-space interface, since basic
matching and setting the TTL are not generally useful. We will probably
want the ability to match on extraordinary events (such as TTL of 0 or 1)
and a decrement action.
Feature #8024
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@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.
Almost all current actions can be expressed in the form of
push/pop/set <field>, where field is one of the match fields. We can
create three base actions and take a field. This has both a nice
symmetry and avoids inconsistencies where we can match on the vlan
TPID but not set it.
Following patch converts all actions to this new format.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Bug #7115
Most of the enum tags in this file are lowercased versions of the uppercase
enum prefixes (or slightly less abbreviated versions, e.g. "dp" becomes
"datapath"). This commit fixes up the others for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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.
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SAMPLE has never been implemented in dpif-netdev. This
commit implements it and adds a cast to enum ovs_action_type in the switch
statement that checks the action type, so that GCC complains if we forget
to add a case for a new action type.
I had to assign the return value of nl_attr_type() to a temporary variable,
because "switch ((enum ovs_action_type) nl_attr_type(a))" provoked a GCC
warning that I've never seen before:
../lib/dpif-netdev.c:1260: warning: cast from function call of type 'int'
to non-matching type 'enum ovs_action_type'
dpif_netdev_validate_actions() existed for three reasons. First, it checked
that the actions were well-formed and valid. This isn't really necessary,
because the actions are built internally by ofproto-dpif and will always be
well-formed. (If not, that's a bug in ofproto-dpif.) Second, it checks
whether the actions will modify (mutate) the data in the packet and reports
that to the caller, which can use it to optimize what it does. However,
the only caller that used this was dpif_netdev_execute(), which is not a
fast-path (if dpif-netdev can be said to have a fast path at all).
Third, dpif_netdev_validate_actions() rejects certain actions that
dpif-netdev does not implement: OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET_TUNNEL,
OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET_PRIORITY, and OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_PRIORITY. However,
this doesn't really seem necessary to me. First, dpif-netdev can't support
tunnels in any case, so OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET_TUNNEL shouldn't come up.
Second, the priority actions just aren't important enough to worry about;
they only affect QoS, which isn't really important with dpif-netdev since
it's going to be slow anyway.
So this commit just drops dpif_netdev_validate_actions() entirely.
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>
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>
Currently the kernel vlan actions mirror those used by OpenFlow 1.0.
i.e. MODIFY and STRIP. More flexible approach is to have an action to
push a tag and pop a tag off, so that it can handle multiple levels of vlan
tags. Plus it aligns with newer version of OpenFlow.
As this patch replaces MODIFY with PUSH semantic, action
mapping done in userpace is fixed accordingly.
GSO handling for multiple levels of vlan tags is also added as
Jesse suggested before.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
When ovs-vswitchd executes actions on a synthesized packet, that is, on a
packet that is not being forwarded from any particular port but is being
generated by ovs-vswitchd itself or by an OpenFlow controller (using a
OFPT_PACKET_OUT message with an in_port of OFPP_NONE), there is no good
choice for the in_port to pass to the kernel in the flow in the
OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE message. This commit allows ovs-vswitchd to omit
the in_port entirely in this case.
This fixes a bug in OFPT_PACKET_OUT: using an in_port of OFPP_NONE would
cause the packet to be dropped by the kernel, since that's an invalid
input port.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Reported-by: Aaron Rosen <arosen@clemson.edu>
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>
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.
Expose the number of flows present in a datapath to user-space
and to users via ovs-dpctl show.
e.g.:
ovs-dpctl show br3
system@br3:
lookups: frags:0, hit:0, missed:0, lost:0
flows: 0
...
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
[Jesse: Add same logic to userspace datapath.]
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
ODP_ACTION_ATTR_CONTROLLER in the kernel actually sends packets to
userspace, not the controller. To make it generic rename this action
to ODP_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
The NXAST_DROP_SPOOFED_ARP action has been deprecated in favor of
defining flows using the NXM_NX_ARP_SHA flow match for a while. This
commit removes it.
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>
I know already that this breaks the statsfixes that were implemented by the
following commits:
827ab71c97f "ofproto: Datapath statistics accounted twice."
6f1435fc8f7 "ofproto: Resubmit statistics improperly account during..."
These were already broken in a previous merge. I will work on a fix.
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.
My original intent for ofpbufs initialized with ofpbuf_use_stack() was that
the caller was providing enough space on the stack for the common case,
with dynamic allocation as a fallback. But in practice, none of the
clients actually do this. Instead, all of them actually know that the
stack-allocated buffer is big enough and, since they don't want to bother
with having to call ofpbuf_delete(), they instead assert that the buffer
wasn't reallocated.
Since this is a bit of a pain, this commit changes the semantics of
ofpbuf_use_stack() to be that the stack-allocated buffer cannot be
reallocated at all. This is more convenient for the existing clients.
Until now, tunnel vports have had a specific MTU, in the same way that
ordinary network devices have an MTU, but treating them this way does not
always make sense. For example, consider a datapath that has three ports:
the local port, a GRE tunnel to another host, and a physical port. If
the physical port is configured with a jumbo MTU, it should be possible to
send jumbo packets across the tunnel: the tunnel can do fragmentation or
the physical port traversed by the tunnel might have a jumbo MTU.
However, until now, tunnels always had a 1500-byte MTU by default. It
could be adjusted using ODP_VPORT_MTU_SET, but nothing actually did this.
One alternative would be to make ovs-vswitchd able to set the vport's MTU.
This commit, however, takes a different approach, of dropping the concept
of MTU entirely for tunnel vports. This also solves the problem described
above, without making any additional work for anyone.
I tested that, without this change, I could not send 1600-byte "pings"
between two machines whose NICs had 2000-byte MTUs that were connected to
vswitches that were in turn connected over GRE tunnels with the default
1500-byte MTU. With this change, it worked OK, regardless of the MTU of
the network traversed by the GRE tunnel.
This patch also makes "patch" ports MTU-less.
It might make sense to remove vport_set_mtu() and the associated callback
now, since ordinary network devices are the only vports that support it
now.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Suggested-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Bug #3728.
A few common IP protocol types were defined in "lib/packets.h". However,
we already assume the existence of <netinet/in.h> which contains a more
exhaustive list and should be available on POSIX systems.
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.
