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>
When a vport parse error occurs, the vport_class's parse_config function
doesn't necessarily store a valid pointer into the vport_info's 'config'
member, so netdev_vport_create() needs to supply a null pointer here to
avoiding passing a wild pointer to free().
The existing implementation never worked because it used different strings
for notifier shash addition and lookup: for adding to the shash, it used
the vport name; for lookup, it used "<type>:<name>". This fixes the
problem, by using "<type>:<name>" in both cases.
Linux 2.6.35 added struct rtnl_link_stats64, which as a set of 64-bit
network device counters is what the OVS datapath needs. We might as well
use it instead of our own.
This commit moves the if_link.h compat header from datapath/ into the
top-level include/ directory so that it is visible both to kernel and
userspace code.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Currently netdev_get_carrier() returns both a carrier status and
an error code. However, usage of the error code was inconsistent:
most callers either ignored it or didn't perform their task if an
error occured, which prevented bond rebalancing. This makes the
handling consistent by translating an error into a down status in
the netdev library.
Bug #3959
Commit 2b9d65 (netdev-vport: Merge in netdev-patch and netdev-tunnel.)
refactored the common parts of the netdev-patch and netdev-tunnel
sources into netdev-vport. During the refactoring, the "destroy" method
didn't inherit the netdev_vport_do_ioctl(ODP_VPORT_DEL, ...) call, which
is needed to actually destroy the device in the kernel. This commit
fixes that.
Bug #3267
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.
Adding a macro to define the vlog module in use adds a level of
indirection, which makes it easier to change how the vlog module must be
defined. A followup commit needs to do that, so getting these widespread
changes out of the way first should make that commit easier to review.
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.
