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net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. Add the fields of the conntrack original direction 5-tuple to struct sw_flow_key. The new fields are initially marked as non-existent, and are populated whenever a conntrack action is executed and either finds or generates a conntrack entry. This means that these fields exist for all packets that were not rejected by conntrack as untrackable. The original tuple fields in the sw_flow_key are filled from the original direction tuple of the conntrack entry relating to the current packet, or from the original direction tuple of the master conntrack entry, if the current conntrack entry has a master. Generally, expected connections of connections having an assigned helper (e.g., FTP), have a master conntrack entry. The main purpose of the new conntrack original tuple fields is to allow matching on them for policy decision purposes, with the premise that the admissibility of tracked connections reply packets (as well as original direction packets), and both direction packets of any related connections may be based on ACL rules applying to the master connection's original direction 5-tuple. This also makes it easier to make policy decisions when the actual packet headers might have been transformed by NAT, as the original direction 5-tuple represents the packet headers before any such transformation. When using the original direction 5-tuple the admissibility of return and/or related packets need not be based on the mere existence of a conntrack entry, allowing separation of admission policy from the established conntrack state. While existence of a conntrack entry is required for admission of the return or related packets, policy changes can render connections that were initially admitted to be rejected or dropped afterwards. If the admission of the return and related packets was based on mere conntrack state (e.g., connection being in an established state), a policy change that would make the connection rejected or dropped would need to find and delete all conntrack entries affected by such a change. When using the original direction 5-tuple matching the affected conntrack entries can be allowed to time out instead, as the established state of the connection would not need to be the basis for packet admission any more. It should be noted that the directionality of related connections may be the same or different than that of the master connection, and neither the original direction 5-tuple nor the conntrack state bits carry this information. If needed, the directionality of the master connection can be stored in master's conntrack mark or labels, which are automatically inherited by the expected related connections. The fact that neither ARP nor ND packets are trackable by conntrack allows mutual exclusion between ARP/ND and the new conntrack original tuple fields. Hence, the IP addresses are overlaid in union with ARP and ND fields. This allows the sw_flow_key to not grow much due to this patch, but it also means that we must be careful to never use the new key fields with ARP or ND packets. ARP is easy to distinguish and keep mutually exclusive based on the ethernet type, but ND being an ICMPv6 protocol requires a bit more attention. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:21:59 -08:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats. With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended operation. This patch uses per-CPU stats in cases where a flow is likely to be shared (if there is a wildcard in the 5-tuple and therefore likely to be spread by RSS). In other situations, it uses the current strategy, saving memory and allocation time. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-29 17:22:21 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
ip_tunnel: Make ovs_tunnel_info and ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel generic Rename the tunnel metadata data structures currently internal to OVS and make them generic for use by all IP tunnels. Both structures are kernel internal and will stay that way. Their members are exposed to user space through individual Netlink attributes by OVS. It will therefore be possible to extend/modify these structures without affecting user ABI. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:43:54 +02:00
openvswitch: Make tunnel set action attach a metadata dst Utilize the new metadata dst to attach encapsulation instructions to the skb. The existing egress_tun_info via the OVS_CB() is left in place until all tunnel vports have been converted to the new method. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:44:03 +02:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: add mac_proto field to the flow key Use a hole in the structure. We support only Ethernet so far and will add a support for L2-less packets shortly. We could use a bool to indicate whether the Ethernet header is present or not but the approach with the mac_proto field is more generic and occupies the same number of bytes in the struct, while allowing later extensibility. It also makes the code in the next patches more self explaining. It would be nice to use ARPHRD_ constants but those are u16 which would be waste. Thus define our own constants. Another upside of this is that we can overload this new field to also denote whether the flow key is valid. This has the advantage that on refragmentation, we don't have to reparse the packet but can rely on the stored eth.type. This is especially important for the next patches in this series - instead of adding another branch for L2-less packets before calling ovs_fragment, we can just remove all those branches completely. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-10 16:28:18 +01:00
openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling. 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 <jesse@nicira.com> Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-03 15:35:33 -07:00
openvswitch: Rename GENEVE_TUN_OPTS() to TUN_METADATA_OPTS() 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 <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-15 03:53:57 +01:00
openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling. 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 <jesse@nicira.com> Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-03 15:35:33 -07:00
openvswitch: Make tunnel set action attach a metadata dst Utilize the new metadata dst to attach encapsulation instructions to the skb. The existing egress_tun_info via the OVS_CB() is left in place until all tunnel vports have been converted to the new method. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:44:03 +02:00
openvswitch: 802.1AD Flow handling, actions, vlan parsing, netlink attributes Add support for 802.1ad including the ability to push and pop double tagged vlans. Add support for 802.1ad to netlink parsing and flow conversion. Uses double nested encap attributes to represent double tagged vlan. Inner TPID encoded along with ctci in nested attributes. This is based on Thomas F Herbert's original v20 patch. I made some small clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherbert@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e@erig.me> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-07 12:56:59 -04:00
openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel info 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 <wenyuz@vmware.com> Acked-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-06 06:51:24 -08:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it eBPF defines this as BPF_TUNLEN_MAX and OVS just uses the hard-coded value inside struct sw_flow_key. Thus, add and use IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX for this, which makes the code a bit more generic and allows to remove BPF_TUNLEN_MAX from eBPF code. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-16 01:42:51 +01:00
openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling. 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 <jesse@nicira.com> Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-03 15:35:33 -07:00
ip_tunnel: Make ovs_tunnel_info and ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel generic Rename the tunnel metadata data structures currently internal to OVS and make them generic for use by all IP tunnels. Both structures are kernel internal and will stay that way. Their members are exposed to user space through individual Netlink attributes by OVS. It will therefore be possible to extend/modify these structures without affecting user ABI. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:43:54 +02:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: add skb mark matching and set action This patch adds support for skb mark matching and set action. Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-11-26 11:24:11 -08:00
openvswitch: Increase maximum number of datapath ports. Use hash table to store ports of datapath. Allow 64K ports per switch. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-08-23 12:40:54 -07:00
openvswitch: Compact sw_flow_key. Minimize padding in sw_flow_key and move 'tp' top the main struct. These changes simplify code when accessing the transport port numbers and the tcp flags, and makes the sw_flow_key 8 bytes smaller on 64-bit systems (128->120 bytes). These changes also make the keys for IPv4 packets to fit in one cache line. There is a valid concern for safety of packing the struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel, as it would be possible to take the address of the tun_id member as a __be64 * which could result in unaligned access in some systems. However: - sw_flow_key itself is 64-bit aligned, so the tun_id within is always 64-bit aligned. - We never make arrays of ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel (which would force every second tun_key to be misaligned). - We never take the address of the tun_id in to a __be64 *. - Whereever we use struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel outside the sw_flow_key, it is in stack (on tunnel input functions), where compiler has full control of the alignment. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-05 09:54:49 -07:00
openvswitch: add mac_proto field to the flow key Use a hole in the structure. We support only Ethernet so far and will add a support for L2-less packets shortly. We could use a bool to indicate whether the Ethernet header is present or not but the approach with the mac_proto field is more generic and occupies the same number of bytes in the struct, while allowing later extensibility. It also makes the code in the next patches more self explaining. It would be nice to use ARPHRD_ constants but those are u16 which would be waste. Thus define our own constants. Another upside of this is that we can overload this new field to also denote whether the flow key is valid. This has the advantage that on refragmentation, we don't have to reparse the packet but can rely on the stored eth.type. This is especially important for the next patches in this series - instead of adding another branch for L2-less packets before calling ovs_fragment, we can just remove all those branches completely. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-10 16:28:18 +01:00
openvswitch: add tunnel protocol to sw_flow_key Store tunnel protocol (AF_INET or AF_INET6) in sw_flow_key. This field now also acts as an indicator whether the flow contains tunnel data (this was previously indicated by tun_key.u.ipv4.dst being set but with IPv6 addresses in an union with IPv4 ones this won't work anymore). The new field was added to a hole in sw_flow_key. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-05 13:09:46 +02:00
openvswitch: Add recirc and hash action. 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 <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 19:37:25 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: 802.1AD Flow handling, actions, vlan parsing, netlink attributes Add support for 802.1ad including the ability to push and pop double tagged vlans. Add support for 802.1ad to netlink parsing and flow conversion. Uses double nested encap attributes to represent double tagged vlan. Inner TPID encoded along with ctci in nested attributes. This is based on Thomas F Herbert's original v20 patch. I made some small clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherbert@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Garver <e@erig.me> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-07 12:56:59 -04:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. struct sw_flow_key has two 16-bit holes. Move the most matched conntrack match fields there. In some typical cases this reduces the size of the key that needs to be hashed into half and into one cache line. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:22:01 -08:00
openvswitch: Add basic MPLS support to kernel 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 <rkerur@gmail.com> Cc: Leo Alterman <lalterman@nicira.com> Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-10-06 05:05:13 -07:00
openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. struct sw_flow_key has two 16-bit holes. Move the most matched conntrack match fields there. In some typical cases this reduces the size of the key that needs to be hashed into half and into one cache line. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:22:01 -08:00
openvswitch: Compact sw_flow_key. Minimize padding in sw_flow_key and move 'tp' top the main struct. These changes simplify code when accessing the transport port numbers and the tcp flags, and makes the sw_flow_key 8 bytes smaller on 64-bit systems (128->120 bytes). These changes also make the keys for IPv4 packets to fit in one cache line. There is a valid concern for safety of packing the struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel, as it would be possible to take the address of the tun_id member as a __be64 * which could result in unaligned access in some systems. However: - sw_flow_key itself is 64-bit aligned, so the tun_id within is always 64-bit aligned. - We never make arrays of ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel (which would force every second tun_key to be misaligned). - We never take the address of the tun_id in to a __be64 *. - Whereever we use struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel outside the sw_flow_key, it is in stack (on tunnel input functions), where compiler has full control of the alignment. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-05 09:54:49 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. Add the fields of the conntrack original direction 5-tuple to struct sw_flow_key. The new fields are initially marked as non-existent, and are populated whenever a conntrack action is executed and either finds or generates a conntrack entry. This means that these fields exist for all packets that were not rejected by conntrack as untrackable. The original tuple fields in the sw_flow_key are filled from the original direction tuple of the conntrack entry relating to the current packet, or from the original direction tuple of the master conntrack entry, if the current conntrack entry has a master. Generally, expected connections of connections having an assigned helper (e.g., FTP), have a master conntrack entry. The main purpose of the new conntrack original tuple fields is to allow matching on them for policy decision purposes, with the premise that the admissibility of tracked connections reply packets (as well as original direction packets), and both direction packets of any related connections may be based on ACL rules applying to the master connection's original direction 5-tuple. This also makes it easier to make policy decisions when the actual packet headers might have been transformed by NAT, as the original direction 5-tuple represents the packet headers before any such transformation. When using the original direction 5-tuple the admissibility of return and/or related packets need not be based on the mere existence of a conntrack entry, allowing separation of admission policy from the established conntrack state. While existence of a conntrack entry is required for admission of the return or related packets, policy changes can render connections that were initially admitted to be rejected or dropped afterwards. If the admission of the return and related packets was based on mere conntrack state (e.g., connection being in an established state), a policy change that would make the connection rejected or dropped would need to find and delete all conntrack entries affected by such a change. When using the original direction 5-tuple matching the affected conntrack entries can be allowed to time out instead, as the established state of the connection would not need to be the basis for packet admission any more. It should be noted that the directionality of related connections may be the same or different than that of the master connection, and neither the original direction 5-tuple nor the conntrack state bits carry this information. If needed, the directionality of the master connection can be stored in master's conntrack mark or labels, which are automatically inherited by the expected related connections. The fact that neither ARP nor ND packets are trackable by conntrack allows mutual exclusion between ARP/ND and the new conntrack original tuple fields. Hence, the IP addresses are overlaid in union with ARP and ND fields. This allows the sw_flow_key to not grow much due to this patch, but it also means that we must be careful to never use the new key fields with ARP or ND packets. ARP is easy to distinguish and keep mutually exclusive based on the ethernet type, but ND being an ICMPv6 protocol requires a bit more attention. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:21:59 -08:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. Add the fields of the conntrack original direction 5-tuple to struct sw_flow_key. The new fields are initially marked as non-existent, and are populated whenever a conntrack action is executed and either finds or generates a conntrack entry. This means that these fields exist for all packets that were not rejected by conntrack as untrackable. The original tuple fields in the sw_flow_key are filled from the original direction tuple of the conntrack entry relating to the current packet, or from the original direction tuple of the master conntrack entry, if the current conntrack entry has a master. Generally, expected connections of connections having an assigned helper (e.g., FTP), have a master conntrack entry. The main purpose of the new conntrack original tuple fields is to allow matching on them for policy decision purposes, with the premise that the admissibility of tracked connections reply packets (as well as original direction packets), and both direction packets of any related connections may be based on ACL rules applying to the master connection's original direction 5-tuple. This also makes it easier to make policy decisions when the actual packet headers might have been transformed by NAT, as the original direction 5-tuple represents the packet headers before any such transformation. When using the original direction 5-tuple the admissibility of return and/or related packets need not be based on the mere existence of a conntrack entry, allowing separation of admission policy from the established conntrack state. While existence of a conntrack entry is required for admission of the return or related packets, policy changes can render connections that were initially admitted to be rejected or dropped afterwards. If the admission of the return and related packets was based on mere conntrack state (e.g., connection being in an established state), a policy change that would make the connection rejected or dropped would need to find and delete all conntrack entries affected by such a change. When using the original direction 5-tuple matching the affected conntrack entries can be allowed to time out instead, as the established state of the connection would not need to be the basis for packet admission any more. It should be noted that the directionality of related connections may be the same or different than that of the master connection, and neither the original direction 5-tuple nor the conntrack state bits carry this information. If needed, the directionality of the master connection can be stored in master's conntrack mark or labels, which are automatically inherited by the expected related connections. The fact that neither ARP nor ND packets are trackable by conntrack allows mutual exclusion between ARP/ND and the new conntrack original tuple fields. Hence, the IP addresses are overlaid in union with ARP and ND fields. This allows the sw_flow_key to not grow much due to this patch, but it also means that we must be careful to never use the new key fields with ARP or ND packets. ARP is easy to distinguish and keep mutually exclusive based on the ethernet type, but ND being an ICMPv6 protocol requires a bit more attention. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:21:59 -08:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add conntrack action Expose the kernel connection tracker via OVS. Userspace components can make use of the CT action to populate the connection state (ct_state) field for a flow. This state can be subsequently matched. Exposed connection states are OVS_CS_F_*: - NEW (0x01) - Beginning of a new connection. - ESTABLISHED (0x02) - Part of an existing connection. - RELATED (0x04) - Related to an established connection. - INVALID (0x20) - Could not track the connection for this packet. - REPLY_DIR (0x40) - This packet is in the reply direction for the flow. - TRACKED (0x80) - This packet has been sent through conntrack. When the CT action is executed by itself, it will send the packet through the connection tracker and populate the ct_state field with one or more of the connection state flags above. The CT action will always set the TRACKED bit. When the COMMIT flag is passed to the conntrack action, this specifies that information about the connection should be stored. This allows subsequent packets for the same (or related) connections to be correlated with this connection. Sending subsequent packets for the connection through conntrack allows the connection tracker to consider the packets as ESTABLISHED, RELATED, and/or REPLY_DIR. The CT action may optionally take a zone to track the flow within. This allows connections with the same 5-tuple to be kept logically separate from connections in other zones. If the zone is specified, then the "ct_zone" match field will be subsequently populated with the zone id. IP fragments are handled by transparently assembling them as part of the CT action. The maximum received unit (MRU) size is tracked so that refragmentation can occur during output. IP frag handling contributed by Andy Zhou. Based on original design by Justin Pettit. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-26 11:31:48 -07:00
openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. struct sw_flow_key has two 16-bit holes. Move the most matched conntrack match fields there. In some typical cases this reduces the size of the key that needs to be hashed into half and into one cache line. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:22:01 -08:00
openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. Add the fields of the conntrack original direction 5-tuple to struct sw_flow_key. The new fields are initially marked as non-existent, and are populated whenever a conntrack action is executed and either finds or generates a conntrack entry. This means that these fields exist for all packets that were not rejected by conntrack as untrackable. The original tuple fields in the sw_flow_key are filled from the original direction tuple of the conntrack entry relating to the current packet, or from the original direction tuple of the master conntrack entry, if the current conntrack entry has a master. Generally, expected connections of connections having an assigned helper (e.g., FTP), have a master conntrack entry. The main purpose of the new conntrack original tuple fields is to allow matching on them for policy decision purposes, with the premise that the admissibility of tracked connections reply packets (as well as original direction packets), and both direction packets of any related connections may be based on ACL rules applying to the master connection's original direction 5-tuple. This also makes it easier to make policy decisions when the actual packet headers might have been transformed by NAT, as the original direction 5-tuple represents the packet headers before any such transformation. When using the original direction 5-tuple the admissibility of return and/or related packets need not be based on the mere existence of a conntrack entry, allowing separation of admission policy from the established conntrack state. While existence of a conntrack entry is required for admission of the return or related packets, policy changes can render connections that were initially admitted to be rejected or dropped afterwards. If the admission of the return and related packets was based on mere conntrack state (e.g., connection being in an established state), a policy change that would make the connection rejected or dropped would need to find and delete all conntrack entries affected by such a change. When using the original direction 5-tuple matching the affected conntrack entries can be allowed to time out instead, as the established state of the connection would not need to be the basis for packet admission any more. It should be noted that the directionality of related connections may be the same or different than that of the master connection, and neither the original direction 5-tuple nor the conntrack state bits carry this information. If needed, the directionality of the master connection can be stored in master's conntrack mark or labels, which are automatically inherited by the expected related connections. The fact that neither ARP nor ND packets are trackable by conntrack allows mutual exclusion between ARP/ND and the new conntrack original tuple fields. Hence, the IP addresses are overlaid in union with ARP and ND fields. This allows the sw_flow_key to not grow much due to this patch, but it also means that we must be careful to never use the new key fields with ARP or ND packets. ARP is easy to distinguish and keep mutually exclusive based on the ethernet type, but ND being an ICMPv6 protocol requires a bit more attention. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:21:59 -08:00
openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. struct sw_flow_key has two 16-bit holes. Move the most matched conntrack match fields there. In some typical cases this reduces the size of the key that needs to be hashed into half and into one cache line. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:22:01 -08:00
openvswitch: Rename LABEL->LABELS Conntrack LABELS (plural) are exposed by conntrack; rename the OVS name for these to be consistent with conntrack. Fixes: c2ac667 "openvswitch: Allow matching on conntrack label" Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-01 15:00:37 -07:00
openvswitch: Add conntrack action Expose the kernel connection tracker via OVS. Userspace components can make use of the CT action to populate the connection state (ct_state) field for a flow. This state can be subsequently matched. Exposed connection states are OVS_CS_F_*: - NEW (0x01) - Beginning of a new connection. - ESTABLISHED (0x02) - Part of an existing connection. - RELATED (0x04) - Related to an established connection. - INVALID (0x20) - Could not track the connection for this packet. - REPLY_DIR (0x40) - This packet is in the reply direction for the flow. - TRACKED (0x80) - This packet has been sent through conntrack. When the CT action is executed by itself, it will send the packet through the connection tracker and populate the ct_state field with one or more of the connection state flags above. The CT action will always set the TRACKED bit. When the COMMIT flag is passed to the conntrack action, this specifies that information about the connection should be stored. This allows subsequent packets for the same (or related) connections to be correlated with this connection. Sending subsequent packets for the connection through conntrack allows the connection tracker to consider the packets as ESTABLISHED, RELATED, and/or REPLY_DIR. The CT action may optionally take a zone to track the flow within. This allows connections with the same 5-tuple to be kept logically separate from connections in other zones. If the zone is specified, then the "ct_zone" match field will be subsequently populated with the zone id. IP fragments are handled by transparently assembling them as part of the CT action. The maximum received unit (MRU) size is tracked so that refragmentation can occur during output. IP frag handling contributed by Andy Zhou. Based on original design by Justin Pettit. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-26 11:31:48 -07:00
openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow_key. sw_flow_key alignment was declared as " __aligned(__alignof__(long))". However, this breaks on the m68k architecture where long is 32 bit in size but 16 bit aligned by default. This aligns to the size of a long to ensure that we can always do comparsions in full long-sized chunks. It also adds an additional build check to catch any reduction in alignment. CC: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-05 12:17:05 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. Add the fields of the conntrack original direction 5-tuple to struct sw_flow_key. The new fields are initially marked as non-existent, and are populated whenever a conntrack action is executed and either finds or generates a conntrack entry. This means that these fields exist for all packets that were not rejected by conntrack as untrackable. The original tuple fields in the sw_flow_key are filled from the original direction tuple of the conntrack entry relating to the current packet, or from the original direction tuple of the master conntrack entry, if the current conntrack entry has a master. Generally, expected connections of connections having an assigned helper (e.g., FTP), have a master conntrack entry. The main purpose of the new conntrack original tuple fields is to allow matching on them for policy decision purposes, with the premise that the admissibility of tracked connections reply packets (as well as original direction packets), and both direction packets of any related connections may be based on ACL rules applying to the master connection's original direction 5-tuple. This also makes it easier to make policy decisions when the actual packet headers might have been transformed by NAT, as the original direction 5-tuple represents the packet headers before any such transformation. When using the original direction 5-tuple the admissibility of return and/or related packets need not be based on the mere existence of a conntrack entry, allowing separation of admission policy from the established conntrack state. While existence of a conntrack entry is required for admission of the return or related packets, policy changes can render connections that were initially admitted to be rejected or dropped afterwards. If the admission of the return and related packets was based on mere conntrack state (e.g., connection being in an established state), a policy change that would make the connection rejected or dropped would need to find and delete all conntrack entries affected by such a change. When using the original direction 5-tuple matching the affected conntrack entries can be allowed to time out instead, as the established state of the connection would not need to be the basis for packet admission any more. It should be noted that the directionality of related connections may be the same or different than that of the master connection, and neither the original direction 5-tuple nor the conntrack state bits carry this information. If needed, the directionality of the master connection can be stored in master's conntrack mark or labels, which are automatically inherited by the expected related connections. The fact that neither ARP nor ND packets are trackable by conntrack allows mutual exclusion between ARP/ND and the new conntrack original tuple fields. Hence, the IP addresses are overlaid in union with ARP and ND fields. This allows the sw_flow_key to not grow much due to this patch, but it also means that we must be careful to never use the new key fields with ARP or ND packets. ARP is easy to distinguish and keep mutually exclusive based on the ethernet type, but ND being an ICMPv6 protocol requires a bit more attention. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-09 11:21:59 -08:00
openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files. Following patch restructures functionality of component into three different components: flow.c: contains flow extract. flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api. flow_table.c: flow table api. This patch restructures code without changing logic. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
openvswitch: Shrink sw_flow_mask by 8 bytes (64-bit) or 4 bytes (32-bit). We won't normally have a ton of flow masks but using a size_t to store values no bigger than sizeof(struct sw_flow_key) seems excessive. This reduces sw_flow_key_range and sw_flow_mask by 4 bytes on 32-bit systems. On 64-bit systems it shrinks sw_flow_key_range by 12 bytes but sw_flow_mask only by 8 bytes due to padding. Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-11-25 10:41:28 -08:00
openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files. Following patch restructures functionality of component into three different components: flow.c: contains flow extract. flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api. flow_table.c: flow table api. This patch restructures code without changing logic. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs. 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 <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-21 16:42:52 -08:00
openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files. Following patch restructures functionality of component into three different components: flow.c: contains flow extract. flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api. flow_table.c: flow table api. This patch restructures code without changing logic. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
openvswitch: Serialize acts with original netlink len Previously, we used the kernel-internal netlink actions length to calculate the size of messages to serialize back to userspace. However,the sw_flow_actions may not be formatted exactly the same as the actions on the wire, so store the original actions length when de-serializing and re-use the original length when serializing. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-26 11:31:44 -07:00
openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files. Following patch restructures functionality of component into three different components: flow.c: contains flow extract. flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api. flow_table.c: flow table api. This patch restructures code without changing logic. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats. With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended operation. This patch uses per-CPU stats in cases where a flow is likely to be shared (if there is a wildcard in the 5-tuple and therefore likely to be spread by RSS). In other situations, it uses the current strategy, saving memory and allocation time. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-29 17:22:21 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs. 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 <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-21 16:42:52 -08:00
openvswitch: use percpu flow stats Instead of using flow stats per NUMA node, use it per CPU. When using megaflows, the stats lock can be a bottleneck in scalability. On a E5-2690 12-core system, usual throughput went from ~4Mpps to ~15Mpps when forwarding between two 40GbE ports with a single flow configured on the datapath. This has been tested on a system with possible CPUs 0-7,16-23. After module removal, there were no corruption on the slab cache. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com> Cc: pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-15 19:11:53 -03:00
openvswitch: Per NUMA node flow stats. Keep kernel flow stats for each NUMA node rather than each (logical) CPU. This avoids using the per-CPU allocator and removes most of the kernel-side OVS locking overhead otherwise on the top of perf reports and allows OVS to scale better with higher number of threads. With 9 handlers and 4 revalidators netperf TCP_CRR test flow setup rate doubles on a server with two hyper-threaded physical CPUs (16 logical cores each) compared to the current OVS master. Tested with non-trivial flow table with a TCP port match rule forcing all new connections with unique port numbers to OVS userspace. The IP addresses are still wildcarded, so the kernel flows are not considered as exact match 5-tuple flows. This type of flows can be expected to appear in large numbers as the result of more effective wildcarding made possible by improvements in OVS userspace flow classifier. Perf results for this test (master): Events: 305K cycles + 8.43% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner + 5.64% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 4.75% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] find_match_wc + 3.32% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock + 2.61% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] pcpu_alloc_area + 2.19% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range + 2.03% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle + 1.84% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_unlock + 1.64% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] classifier_lookup + 1.58% ovs-vswitchd libc-2.15.so [.] 0x7f4e6 + 1.07% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset + 1.03% netperf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 0.92% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock ... And after this patch: Events: 356K cycles + 6.85% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] find_match_wc + 4.63% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock + 3.06% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 2.81% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range + 2.51% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_unlock + 2.27% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] classifier_lookup + 1.84% ovs-vswitchd libc-2.15.so [.] 0x15d30f + 1.74% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner + 1.47% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle + 1.34% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask + 1.33% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] rule_actions_unref + 1.16% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] hindex_node_with_hash + 1.16% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] do_xlate_actions + 1.09% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] ofproto_rule_ref + 1.01% netperf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock ... There is a small increase in kernel spinlock overhead due to the same spinlock being shared between multiple cores of the same physical CPU, but that is barely visible in the netperf TCP_CRR test performance (maybe ~1% performance drop, hard to tell exactly due to variance in the test results), when testing for kernel module throughput (with no userspace activity, handful of kernel flows). On flow setup, a single stats instance is allocated (for the NUMA node 0). As CPUs from multiple NUMA nodes start updating stats, new NUMA-node specific stats instances are allocated. This allocation on the packet processing code path is made to never block or look for emergency memory pools, minimizing the allocation latency. If the allocation fails, the existing preallocated stats instance is used. Also, if only CPUs from one NUMA-node are updating the preallocated stats instance, no additional stats instances are allocated. This eliminates the need to pre-allocate stats instances that will not be used, also relieving the stats reader from the burden of reading stats that are never used. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-03-27 12:42:54 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs. 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 <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-21 16:42:52 -08:00
openvswitch: Mega flow implementation Add wildcarded flow support in kernel datapath. Wildcarded flow can improve OVS flow set up performance by avoid sending matching new flows to the user space program. The exact performance boost will largely dependent on wildcarded flow hit rate. In case all new flows hits wildcard flows, the flow set up rate is within 5% of that of linux bridge module. Pravin has made significant contributions to this patch. Including API clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-07 20:01:00 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: use percpu flow stats Instead of using flow stats per NUMA node, use it per CPU. When using megaflows, the stats lock can be a bottleneck in scalability. On a E5-2690 12-core system, usual throughput went from ~4Mpps to ~15Mpps when forwarding between two 40GbE ports with a single flow configured on the datapath. This has been tested on a system with possible CPUs 0-7,16-23. After module removal, there were no corruption on the slab cache. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@redhat.com> Cc: pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-15 19:11:53 -03:00
openvswitch: Per NUMA node flow stats. Keep kernel flow stats for each NUMA node rather than each (logical) CPU. This avoids using the per-CPU allocator and removes most of the kernel-side OVS locking overhead otherwise on the top of perf reports and allows OVS to scale better with higher number of threads. With 9 handlers and 4 revalidators netperf TCP_CRR test flow setup rate doubles on a server with two hyper-threaded physical CPUs (16 logical cores each) compared to the current OVS master. Tested with non-trivial flow table with a TCP port match rule forcing all new connections with unique port numbers to OVS userspace. The IP addresses are still wildcarded, so the kernel flows are not considered as exact match 5-tuple flows. This type of flows can be expected to appear in large numbers as the result of more effective wildcarding made possible by improvements in OVS userspace flow classifier. Perf results for this test (master): Events: 305K cycles + 8.43% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner + 5.64% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 4.75% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] find_match_wc + 3.32% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock + 2.61% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] pcpu_alloc_area + 2.19% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range + 2.03% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle + 1.84% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_unlock + 1.64% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] classifier_lookup + 1.58% ovs-vswitchd libc-2.15.so [.] 0x7f4e6 + 1.07% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset + 1.03% netperf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 0.92% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock ... And after this patch: Events: 356K cycles + 6.85% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] find_match_wc + 4.63% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_lock + 3.06% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock + 2.81% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range + 2.51% ovs-vswitchd libpthread-2.15.so [.] pthread_mutex_unlock + 2.27% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] classifier_lookup + 1.84% ovs-vswitchd libc-2.15.so [.] 0x15d30f + 1.74% ovs-vswitchd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner + 1.47% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle + 1.34% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] flow_hash_in_minimask + 1.33% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] rule_actions_unref + 1.16% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] hindex_node_with_hash + 1.16% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] do_xlate_actions + 1.09% ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd [.] ofproto_rule_ref + 1.01% netperf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ticket_spin_lock ... There is a small increase in kernel spinlock overhead due to the same spinlock being shared between multiple cores of the same physical CPU, but that is barely visible in the netperf TCP_CRR test performance (maybe ~1% performance drop, hard to tell exactly due to variance in the test results), when testing for kernel module throughput (with no userspace activity, handful of kernel flows). On flow setup, a single stats instance is allocated (for the NUMA node 0). As CPUs from multiple NUMA nodes start updating stats, new NUMA-node specific stats instances are allocated. This allocation on the packet processing code path is made to never block or look for emergency memory pools, minimizing the allocation latency. If the allocation fails, the existing preallocated stats instance is used. Also, if only CPUs from one NUMA-node are updating the preallocated stats instance, no additional stats instances are allocated. This eliminates the need to pre-allocate stats instances that will not be used, also relieving the stats reader from the burden of reading stats that are never used. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-03-27 12:42:54 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: add mac_proto field to the flow key Use a hole in the structure. We support only Ethernet so far and will add a support for L2-less packets shortly. We could use a bool to indicate whether the Ethernet header is present or not but the approach with the mac_proto field is more generic and occupies the same number of bytes in the struct, while allowing later extensibility. It also makes the code in the next patches more self explaining. It would be nice to use ARPHRD_ constants but those are u16 which would be waste. Thus define our own constants. Another upside of this is that we can overload this new field to also denote whether the flow key is valid. This has the advantage that on refragmentation, we don't have to reparse the packet but can rely on the stored eth.type. This is especially important for the next patches in this series - instead of adding another branch for L2-less packets before calling ovs_fragment, we can just remove all those branches completely. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-10 16:28:18 +01:00
openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs. 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 <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-21 16:42:52 -08:00
openvswitch: Fix tracking of flags seen in TCP flows. Flow statistics need to take into account the TCP flags from the packet currently being processed (in 'key'), not the TCP flags matched by the flow found in the kernel flow table (in 'flow'). This bug made the Open vSwitch userspace fin_timeout action have no effect in many cases. This bug is introduced by commit 88d73f6c411ac2f0578 (openvswitch: Use TCP flags in the flow key for stats.) Reported-by: Len Gao <leng@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-06 16:48:38 -07:00
openvswitch: Constify various function arguments Help produce better optimized code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-06 06:58:52 -08:00
openvswitch: Fix ovs_flow_stats_get/clear RCU dereference. For ovs_flow_stats_get() using ovsl_dereference() was wrong, since flow dumps call this with RCU read lock. ovs_flow_stats_clear() is always called with ovs_mutex, so can use ovsl_dereference(). Also, make the ovs_flow_stats_get() 'flow' argument const to make later patches cleaner. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-05 14:17:28 -07:00
openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats. With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended operation. This patch uses per-CPU stats in cases where a flow is likely to be shared (if there is a wildcard in the 5-tuple and therefore likely to be spread by RSS). In other situations, it uses the current strategy, saving memory and allocation time. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-10-29 17:22:21 -07:00
openvswitch: Fix ovs_flow_stats_get/clear RCU dereference. For ovs_flow_stats_get() using ovsl_dereference() was wrong, since flow dumps call this with RCU read lock. ovs_flow_stats_clear() is always called with ovs_mutex, so can use ovsl_dereference(). Also, make the ovs_flow_stats_get() 'flow' argument const to make later patches cleaner. Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-05-05 14:17:28 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add recirc and hash action. 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 <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 19:37:25 -07:00
ip_tunnel: Make ovs_tunnel_info and ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel generic Rename the tunnel metadata data structures currently internal to OVS and make them generic for use by all IP tunnels. Both structures are kernel internal and will stay that way. Their members are exposed to user space through individual Netlink attributes by OVS. It will therefore be possible to extend/modify these structures without affecting user ABI. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:43:54 +02:00
openvswitch: Constify various function arguments Help produce better optimized code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-06 06:58:52 -08:00
openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure. 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 <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-03 15:35:31 -07:00
openvswitch: refactor ovs flow extract API. OVS flow extract is called on packet receive or packet execute code path. Following patch defines separate API for extracting flow-key in packet execute code path. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 19:20:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Allow matching on conntrack label Allow matching and setting the ct_label field. As with ct_mark, this is populated by executing the CT action. The label field may be modified by specifying a label and mask nested under the CT action. It is stored as metadata attached to the connection. Label modification occurs after lookup, and will only persist when the conntrack entry is committed by providing the COMMIT flag to the CT action. Labels are currently fixed to 128 bits in size. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-26 11:31:52 -07:00
openvswitch: refactor ovs flow extract API. OVS flow extract is called on packet receive or packet execute code path. Following patch defines separate API for extracting flow-key in packet execute code path. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
2014-09-15 19:20:31 -07:00
openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE. 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 <jrajahalme@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-06 07:03:05 -08:00
openvswitch: Mega flow implementation Add wildcarded flow support in kernel datapath. Wildcarded flow can improve OVS flow set up performance by avoid sending matching new flows to the user space program. The exact performance boost will largely dependent on wildcarded flow hit rate. In case all new flows hits wildcard flows, the flow set up rate is within 5% of that of linux bridge module. Pravin has made significant contributions to this patch. Including API clean ups and bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-08-07 20:01:00 -07:00
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-10-25 19:26:31 -07:00