linux/net/openvswitch/flow.h, branch v4.0

openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.

2015-01-26T23:45:50Z

Previously, flows were manipulated by userspace specifying a full, unmasked flow key. This adds significant burden onto flow serialization/deserialization, particularly when dumping flows. This patch adds an alternative way to refer to flows using a variable-length "unique flow identifier" (UFID). At flow setup time, userspace may specify a UFID for a flow, which is stored with the flow and inserted into a separate table for lookup, in addition to the standard flow table. Flows created using a UFID must be fetched or deleted using the UFID. All flow dump operations may now be made more terse with OVS_UFID_F_* flags. For example, the OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_KEY flag allows responses to omit the flow key from a datapath operation if the flow has a corresponding UFID. This significantly reduces the time spent assembling and transacting netlink messages. With all OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_* flags enabled, the datapath only returns the UFID and statistics for each flow during flow dump, increasing ovs-vswitchd revalidator performance by 40% or more. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

openvswitch: Rename GENEVE_TUN_OPTS() to TUN_METADATA_OPTS()

2015-01-15T06:11:41Z

Also factors out Geneve validation code into a new separate function validate_and_copy_geneve_opts(). A subsequent patch will introduce VXLAN options. Rename the existing GENEVE_TUN_OPTS() to reflect its extended purpose of carrying generic tunnel metadata options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.

2014-11-10T02:58:44Z

This new flag is useful for suppressing error logging while probing for datapath features using flow commands. For backwards compatibility reasons the commands are executed normally, but error logging is suppressed. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar

openvswitch: Constify various function arguments

2014-11-10T02:58:44Z

Help produce better optimized code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar

openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel info

2014-11-10T02:58:44Z

OVS vswitch has extended IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers to improve network visibility. To export this information userspace needs to know egress tunnel for given packet. By extending packet attributes datapath can export egress tunnel info for given packet. So that userspace can ask for egress tunnel info in userspace action. This information is used to build IPFIX data for given flow. Signed-off-by: Wenyu Zhang Acked-by: Romain Lenglet Acked-by: Ben Pfaff Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar

openvswitch: Add basic MPLS support to kernel

2014-11-06T07:52:33Z

Allow datapath to recognize and extract MPLS labels into flow keys and execute actions which push, pop, and set labels on packets. Based heavily on work by Leo Alterman, Ravi K, Isaku Yamahata and Joe Stringer. Cc: Ravi K Cc: Leo Alterman Cc: Isaku Yamahata Cc: Joe Stringer Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar

openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling.

2014-10-06T04:32:21Z

The Openvswitch implementation is completely agnostic to the options that are in use and can handle newly defined options without further work. It does this by simply matching on a byte array of options and allowing userspace to setup flows on this array. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou Acked-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure.

2014-10-06T04:32:20Z

Currently, the flow information that is matched for tunnels and the tunnel data passed around with packets is the same. However, as additional information is added this is not necessarily desirable, as in the case of pointers. This adds a new structure for tunnel metadata which currently contains only the existing struct. This change is purely internal to the kernel since the current OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV4_TUNNEL is simply a compressed version of OVS_KEY_ATTR_TUNNEL that is translated at flow setup. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

openvswitch: Add recirc and hash action.

2014-09-16T06:28:14Z

Recirc action allows a packet to reenter openvswitch processing. currently openvswitch lookup flow for packet received and execute set of actions on that packet, with help of recirc action we can process/modify the packet and recirculate it back in openvswitch for another pass. OVS hash action calculates 5-tupple hash and set hash in flow-key hash. This can be used along with recirculation for distributing packets among different ports for bond devices. For example: OVS bonding can use following actions: Match on: bond flow; Action: hash, recirc(id) Match on: recirc-id == id and hash lower bits == a; Action: output port_bond_a Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou Acked-by: Jesse Gross Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar

openvswitch: Use tun_key only for egress tunnel path.

2014-09-16T06:28:13Z

Currently tun_key is used for passing tunnel information on ingress and egress path, this cause confusion. Following patch removes its use on ingress path make it egress only parameter. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar Acked-by: Andy Zhou