Bump kernel support for datapath module to include 3.12.
Make use of native ip-tunnel API for Kernel >= 3.12.
Based on patch from James Page.
Signed-off-by: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyle Mestery <mestery@noironetworks.com>
Add a FAQ categorry "Performance Problems". So far the only entry
addresses the issue with using a new kernel module with an older
(pre-megaflows) userspace.
Too many users have incorrectly assumed that ovs-controller is a necessary
or desirable part of an Open vSwitch deployment. This commit should fix
the problem by renaming it test-controller and removing it from the
default install and from packaging.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Kernel 3.11 has support for extended GRE API required for
OVS datapath, But vxlan still needs out of tree tunneling
compatibility. Therefore to simplify, all tunneling modules
are forced to use compat tunneling.
CC: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This makes datapath module much close to upstream datapath and
make code easy to understand.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Changes are mostly related API changes in vlan, GRE
restructuring.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
In certain cases we need to ensure we save off skb->cb before
calling __skb_gso_segment() since in kernels >= 3.9 skb->cb is
used by this routine.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Add a section to the FAQ explaining VXLAN with a pointer to the IETF draft.
Add sections detailing how much of the VXLAN protocol is currently supported
in OVS, along with a section explaining the default UDP port and how to change
this when creating VXLAN ports.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Define a new NXAST_SAMPLE OpenFlow vendor action and the corresponding
OFPACT_SAMPLE OVS action, to do per-flow packet sampling, translated
into a new SAMPLE "flow_sample" dp action.
Make the userspace action's userdata size vary depending on the union
member used. Add a new "flow_sample" upcall to do per-flow packet
sampling. Add a new "ipfix" upcall to do per-bridge packet sampling
to IPFIX collectors.
Extend the OVSDB schema to support configuring IPFIX collector sets.
Add support for configuring multiple IPFIX collectors for per-flow
packet sampling. Add support for configuring per-bridge IPFIX
sampling.
Automatically generate standard IPFIX entity definitions from the IANA
specs. Send one IPFIX data record message for every packet sampled by
an OpenFlow sample action or received by a bridge configured with
IPFIX sampling, and periodically send IPFIX template set messages.
Signed-off-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
OpenFlow version strings in the database are case sensitive.
Reported-by: Markus Linnakangas <markus.linnakangas@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
LISP is an experimental layer 3 tunneling protocol, described in RFC
6830. This patch adds support for LISP tunneling. Since LISP
encapsulated packets do not carry an Ethernet header, it is removed
before encapsulation, and added with hardcoded source and destination
MAC addresses after decapsulation. The harcoded MAC chosen for this
purpose is the locally administered address 02:00:00:00:00:00. Flow
actions can be used to rewrite this MAC for correct reception. As such,
this patch is intended to be used for static network configurations, or
with a LISP capable controller.
Signed-off-by: Lorand Jakab <lojakab@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The CAPWAP implementation is just the encapsulation format and
therefore really not the full protocol. While there were some
uses of it (primarily hardware support and UDP transport). But
these are most likely better provided by VXLAN.
Following patch removes CAPWAP tunneling support.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The autopath action was attempting to achieve functionality similar
to the bundle action, but was significantly clunkier, more
difficult to understand, more difficult to use, and less reliable.
This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
There will be significant changes for tunneling between 1.9 and 1.10
so this describes how to smoothly upgrade.
Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@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>
Add Linux 3.8 kernel to the range of supported kernel versions.
Signed-off-by: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>
[jesse: Update NEWS and FAQ]
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
We've had a lot of questions about this on the mailing lists recently, and
it would be nice to have an authoritative answer to cut and paste.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com>
