Now that genl_ops are no longer modified in place when
registering, they can be made const. This patch was done
mostly with spatch:
@@
identifier ops;
@@
+const
struct genl_ops ops[] = {
...
};
(except the struct thing in net/openvswitch/datapath.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes:
- add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.
- move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
kernel/locking/ directory"
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
...
In order to enable lockdep on seqcount/seqlock structures, we
must explicitly initialize any locks.
The u64_stats_sync structure, uses a seqcount, and thus we need
to introduce a u64_stats_init() function and use it to initialize
the structure.
This unfortunately adds a lot of fairly trivial initialization code
to a number of drivers. But the benefit of ensuring correctness makes
this worth while.
Because these changes are required for lockdep to be enabled, and the
changes are quite trivial, I've not yet split this patch out into 30-some
separate patches, as I figured it would be better to get the various
maintainers thoughts on how to best merge this change along with
the seqcount lockdep enablement.
Feedback would be appreciated!
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mirko Lindner <mlindner@marvell.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
Open vSwitch
A set of updates for net-next/3.13. Major changes are:
* Restructure flow handling code to be more logically organized and
easier to read.
* Rehashing of the flow table is moved from a workqueue to flow
installation time. Before, heavy load could block the workqueue for
excessive periods of time.
* Additional debugging information is provided to help diagnose megaflows.
* It's now possible to match on TCP flags.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
drivers/net/netconsole.c
net/bridge/br_private.h
Three mostly trivial conflicts.
The net/bridge/br_private.h conflict was a function signature (argument
addition) change overlapping with the extern removals from Joe Perches.
In drivers/net/netconsole.c we had one change adjusting a printk message
whilst another changed "printk(KERN_INFO" into "pr_info(".
Lastly, the emulex change was a new inline function addition overlapping
with Joe Perches's extern removals.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Flow->hash can be used to detect hash collisions and avoid flow key
compare in flow lookup.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
tcp_flags=flags/mask
Bitwise match on TCP flags. The flags and mask are 16-bit num‐
bers written in decimal or in hexadecimal prefixed by 0x. Each
1-bit in mask requires that the corresponding bit in port must
match. Each 0-bit in mask causes the corresponding bit to be
ignored.
TCP protocol currently defines 9 flag bits, and additional 3
bits are reserved (must be transmitted as zero), see RFCs 793,
3168, and 3540. The flag bits are, numbering from the least
significant bit:
0: FIN No more data from sender.
1: SYN Synchronize sequence numbers.
2: RST Reset the connection.
3: PSH Push function.
4: ACK Acknowledgement field significant.
5: URG Urgent pointer field significant.
6: ECE ECN Echo.
7: CWR Congestion Windows Reduced.
8: NS Nonce Sum.
9-11: Reserved.
12-15: Not matchable, must be zero.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Widen TCP flags handling from 7 bits (uint8_t) to 12 bits (uint16_t).
The kernel interface remains at 8 bits, which makes no functional
difference now, as none of the higher bits is currently of interest
to the userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
OVS already can handle all types of segmentation offloads that
are supported by the kernel.
Following patch specifically enables UDP and IPV6 segmentation
offloads.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Collect mega flow mask stats. ovs-dpctl show command can be used to
display them for debugging and performance tuning.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Hides mega-flow implementation in flow_table.c rather than
datapath.c.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
ovs-flow rehash does not touch mega flow list. Following patch
moves it dp struct datapath. Avoid one extra indirection for
accessing mega-flow list head on every packet receive.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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>
- Move sysctl_local_ports from a global variable into struct netns_ipv4.
- Modify inet_get_local_port_range to take a struct net, and update all
of the callers.
- Move the initialization of sysctl_local_ports into
sysctl_net_ipv4.c:ipv4_sysctl_init_net from inet_connection_sock.c
v2:
- Ensure indentation used tabs
- Fixed ip.h so it applies cleanly to todays net-next
v3:
- Compile fixes of strange callers of inet_get_local_port_range.
This patch now successfully passes an allmodconfig build.
Removed manual inlining of inet_get_local_port_range in ipv4_local_port_range
Originally-by: Samya <samya@twitter.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rehashing in ovs-workqueue can cause ovs-mutex lock contentions
in case of heavy flow setups where both needs ovs-mutex. So by
moving rehashing to flow-setup we can eliminate contention.
This also simplify ovs locking and reduces dependence on
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
In function __parse_flow_nlattrs(), we check for condition
(type > OVS_KEY_ATTR_MAX) and if true, print an error, but we do
not return from this function as in other checks. It seems this
has been forgotten, as otherwise, we could access beyond the
memory of ovs_key_lens, which is of ovs_key_lens[OVS_KEY_ATTR_MAX + 1].
Hence, a maliciously prepared nla_type from user space could access
beyond this upper limit.
Introduced by 03f0d916a ("openvswitch: Mega flow implementation").
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
The goal of this patch is to harmonize cleanup done on a skbuff on xmit path.
Before this patch, behaviors were different depending of the tunnel type.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This argument is not used, let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This argument is not used, let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds IPv6 support to vxlan device, as the new version
RFC already mentions it:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03
Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make sure the sw_flow_key structure and valid mask boundaries are always
machine word aligned. Optimize the flow compare and mask operations
using machine word size operations. This patch improves throughput on
average by 15% when CPU is the bottleneck of forwarding packets.
This patch is inspired by ideas and code from a patch submitted by Peter
Klausler titled "replace memcmp() with specialized comparator".
However, The original patch only optimizes for architectures
support unaligned machine word access. This patch optimizes for all
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Key_end is a better name describing the ending boundary than key_len.
Rename those variables to make it less confusing.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This patch adds support for rewriting SCTP src,dst ports similar to the
functionality already available for TCP/UDP.
Rewriting SCTP ports is expensive due to double-recalculation of the
SCTP checksums; this is performed to ensure that packets traversing OVS
with invalid checksums will continue to the destination with any
checksum corruption intact.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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>
Link upper device properly. That will make IFLA_MASTER filled up.
Set the master to port 0 of the datapath under which the port belongs.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Flow table destroy is done in rcu call-back context. Therefore
there is no need to use rcu variant of hlist_del().
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
RCUfy dp-dump operation which is already read-only. This
makes all ovs dump operations lockless.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Flow dump operation is read-only operation. There is no need to
take ovs-lock. Following patch use rcu-lock for dumping flows.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Following patch adds vxlan vport type for openvswitch using
vxlan api. So now there is vxlan dependency for openvswitch.
CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It doesn't make sense to output a tunnel packet using the same
parameters that it was received with since that will generally
just result in the packet going back to us. As a result, userspace
assumes that the tunnel key is cleared when transitioning through
the switch. In the majority of cases this doesn't matter since a
packet is either going to a tunnel port (in which the key is
overwritten with new values) or to a non-tunnel port (in which
case the key is ignored). However, it's theoreticaly possible that
userspace could rely on the documented behavior, so this corrects
it.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Flex array is used to allocate hash buckets which is type struct
hlist_head, but we use `struct hlist_head *` to calculate
array size. Since hlist_head is of size pointer it works fine.
Following patch use correct type.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
git silently included an extra hunk in vport_cmd_set() during
automatic merging. This code is unreachable so it does not actually
introduce a problem but it is clearly incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Openvswitch uses function from NET_IPGRE_DEMUX module.
Add Kconfig dependency to fix following compilation errors:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137244035226634
CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This bug was introduced by commit aa310701e7
(openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support.)
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add gre vport implementation. Most of gre protocol processing
is pushed to gre module. It make use of gre demultiplexer
therefore it can co-exist with linux device based gre tunnels.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Following patch adds start offset for sw_flow-key, so that we can
skip tunneling information in key for non-tunnel flows.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
MAX_ACTIONS_BUFSIZE limits action list size, set tunnel action
needs extra space on action list, for now increase max actions list limit.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add ovs tunnel interface for set tunnel action for userspace.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rather than validating actions and then copying all actiaons
in one block, following patch does same operation in single pass.
This validate and copy action one by one. This is required for
ovs tunneling patch.
This patch does not change any functionality.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A few miscellaneous improvements and cleanups before the GRE tunnel
integration series. Intended for net-next/3.11.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is not functional change, this is just code cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Following patch changes vport->send return type so that vport
layer can do error accounting.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The get_config vport op is left over from old compatibility code,
it is neither used nor implemented any more.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
It is an error to try to change the type of a vport using the set
command. However, while we check that this is an error, we still
proceed to allocate memory which then gets freed immediately.
This stops processing after noticing the error, which does not
actually fix a bug but is more correct.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
shortened dev_getter
shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The only user is get_dpifindex(), no need to redirect via the port
operations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
OVS locking was recently changed to have private OVS lock which
simplified overall locking. Therefore there is no need to have
another global genl lock to protect OVS data structures. Following
patch uses of parallel_ops genl family for OVS. This also allows
more granual OVS locking using ovs_mutex for protecting OVS data
structures, which gives more concurrencey. E.g multiple genl
operations OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE can run in parallel, etc.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
include/net/scm.h
net/batman-adv/routing.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.
The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.
An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.
Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.
Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.
Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a protocol argument to the VLAN packet tagging functions. In case of HW
tagging, we need that protocol available in the ndo_start_xmit functions,
so it is stored in a new field in the skb. The new field fits into a hole
(on 64 bit) and doesn't increase the sks's size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rename the hardware VLAN acceleration features to include "CTAG" to indicate
that they only support CTAGs. Follow up patches will introduce 802.1ad
server provider tagging (STAGs) and require the distinction for hardware not
supporting acclerating both.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rather than defining ovs specific stats struct (vport_percpu_stats),
we can use existing pcpu_tstats to achieve exactly same functionality.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Currently OVS uses combination of genl and rtnl lock to protect
datapath state. This was done due to networking stack locking.
But this has complicated locking and there are few lock ordering
issues with new tunneling protocols.
Following patch simplifies locking by introducing new ovs mutex
and now this lock is used to protect entire ovs state.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The port specific options are currently unused resulting in an
empty OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS nested attribute being inserted
into every OVS_VPORT_CMD_GET message.
Don't insert OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS if no options are present.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Kills the FLOW_BUFSIZE constant which needs to be calculated manually
and replaces it with key_attr_size() based on nla_total_size().
Calculates the size of datapath messages instead of relying on
NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE and moves the existing message size calculations
into own functions for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Less error prone as it takes into account the length of both the
destination buffer and the source attribute and documents when
data is copied from an attribute.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Specifying the minimal length in the policy makes it reuseable
and documents the interface.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Add a new constant ETH_P_802_3_MIN, the minimum ethernet type for
an 802.3 frame. Frames with a lower value in the ethernet type field
are Ethernet II.
Also update all the users of this value that David Miller and
I could find to use the new constant.
Also correct a bug in util.c. The comparison with ETH_P_802_3_MIN
should be >= not >.
As suggested by Jesse Gross.
Compile tested only.
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allocation of the Netlink notification skb can potentially fail
after changing vport configuration. In general, we try to avoid
this by undoing any change we made but that is difficult for existing
objects. This avoids the problem by preallocating the buffer (which
is fixed size).
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Conflicts:
net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A couple of minor enhancements for net-next/3.10. The largest is an
extension to allow variable length metadata to be passed to userspace
with packets.
There is a merge conflict in net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c:
A existing commit modifies internal_dev_mac_addr() and a new commit
deletes it. The new one is correct, so you can just remove that function.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A few different bug fixes, including several for issues with userspace
communication that have gone unnoticed up until now. These are intended
for net/3.9.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These comments are useless in upstream kernel.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
In vlan_insert_tag(), we insert a 4-byte VLAN header _after_
mac header:
memmove(skb->data, skb->data + VLAN_HLEN, 2 * ETH_ALEN);
...
veth->h_vlan_proto = htons(ETH_P_8021Q);
...
veth->h_vlan_TCI = htons(vlan_tci);
so after it, we should recompute the checksum to include these 4 bytes.
skb->data still points to the mac header, therefore VLAN header is at
(2 * ETH_ALEN = 12) bytes after it, not (ETH_HLEN = 14) bytes.
This can also be observed via tcpdump:
0x0000: ffff ffff ffff 5254 005d 6f6e 8100 000a
0x0010: 0806 0001 0800 0604 0001 5254 005d 6f6e
0x0020: c0a8 026e 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0282
Similar for __pop_vlan_tci(), the vlan header we remove is the one
overwritten in:
memmove(skb->data + VLAN_HLEN, skb->data, 2 * ETH_ALEN);
Therefore the VLAN_HLEN = 4 bytes after 2 * ETH_ALEN is the part
we want to sub from checksum.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Before this patch, if an LLC/SNAP packet with OUI 00:00:00 had an
ethertype less than 1536 the flow key given to userspace in the upcall
would contain the invalid ethertype (for example, 3). If userspace
attempted to insert a kernel flow for this key it would be rejected
by ovs_flow_from_nlattrs.
This patch allows OVS to pass the OFTest pktact.DirectBadLlcPackets.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Without genlmsg_end the upcall message ends (according to nlmsg_len)
after the struct ovs_header.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
If the pointer does not represent an error then the PTR_ERR
macro may still return a nonzero value.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
If the pointer does not represent an error then the PTR_ERR macro may still
return a nonzero value. The fix is the same as in ovs_vport_cmd_set.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rlane@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Until now, the optional OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA attribute had to be
exactly 64 bits long, if it was present. However, 64 bits is not enough
space to associate as much information with a flow as would be convenient
for some userspace features now under development. This commit generalizes
the attribute, allowing it to be any length.
This generalization is backward-compatible: if userspace only uses 64-bit
attributes, then it will not see any change in behavior.
CC: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Synchronize with 'net' in order to sort out some l2tp, wireless, and
ipv6 GRE fixes that will be built on top of in 'net-next'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_gso_segment() is almost always called in tx path,
except for openvswitch. It calls this function when
it receives the packet and tries to queue it to user-space.
In this special case, the ->ip_summed check inside
skb_gso_segment() is no longer true, as ->ip_summed value
has different meanings on rx path.
This patch adjusts skb_gso_segment() so that we can at least
avoid such warnings on checksum.
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The check for LRO packets was incorrectly put in the transmit path
instead of on receive. Since this check is supposed to protect OVS
(and other parts of the system) from packets that it cannot handle
it is obviously not useful on egress. Therefore, this commit moves
it back to the receive side.
The primary problem that this caused is upcalls to userspace tried
to segment the packet even though no segmentation information is
available. This would later cause NULL pointer dereferences when
skb_gso_segment() did nothing.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This reduces the number of valid "no such device" error values that
need special attention by the caller.
Userspace code will need to keep on checking for both ENODEV and
ENOENT as long as older kernel modules are around.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Use strlcpy where possible to ensure the string is \0 terminated.
Use always sizeof(string) instead of 32, ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN
and custom defines.
Use snprintf instead of sprint.
Remove unnecessary inits of ->fw_version
Remove unnecessary inits of drvinfo struct.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NET_ADDR_SET is set in dev_set_mac_address() no need to alter
dev->addr_assign_type value in drivers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Having the 16bit port_no in between a set of pointers creates
an unwanted and useless hole in the struct.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
bonus: if we ever are to use IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE for
anything further than to check availability in eth_mac_addr(),
Open vSwitch will be ready for that.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Currently, each time a device is detached from an OVS datapath
we call synchronize RCU before freeing associated data structures.
However, if a bridge is deleted (which detaches all ports) when
many devices are connected then there can be a long delay. This
switches to use call_rcu() to group the cost together.
Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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>
just use more faster this_cpu_ptr instead of per_cpu_ptr(p, smp_processor_id());
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
With this commit, OVS will match the data in the RARP packets having
ethertype 0x8035, in the same way as the data in the ARP packets.
Signed-off-by: Mehak Mahajan <mmahajan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
We currently only extract the ARP payload if the opcode indicates
that it is a request or reply. However, we also only set the
key length in these situations even though it should still be
possible to match on the opcode. There's no real reason to
restrict the ARP opcode since all have the same format so this
simply removes the check.
Signed-off-by: Mehak Mahajan <mmahajan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
If an attempt is made to transmit a packet that is over the device's
MTU then we log it using the datapath's name. However, it is much
more helpful to use the device name instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Conflicts:
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c
Rather easy conflict resolution, the 'net' tree had bug fixes to make
sure we checked if a socket is a time-wait one or not and elide the
logging code if so.
Whereas on the 'net-next' side we are calculating the UID and GID from
the creds using different interfaces due to the user namespace changes
from Eric Biederman.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.
I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.
I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
The vlan encapsulation fields in the maximum flow defintion were
never updated when the representation changed before upstreaming.
In theory this could cause a kernel panic when a maximum length
flow is used. In practice this has never happened (to my knowledge)
because skb allocations are padded out to a cache line so you would
need the right combination of flow and packet being sent to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we
can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Following patch adds support for network namespace to openvswitch.
Since it must release devices when namespaces are destroyed, a
side effect of this patch is that the module no longer keeps a
refcount but instead cleans up any state when it is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
When installing a flow with an action to set a particular field we
need to validate that the packets that are part of the flow actually
contain that header. With IP we use zeroed addresses and with TCP/UDP
the check is for zeroed ports. This check is overly broad and can catch
packets like DHCP requests that have a zero source address in a
legitimate header. This changes the check to look for a zeroed protocol
number for IP or for both ports be zero for TCP/UDP before considering
the header to not exist.
Reported-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This reverts commit 5b3e7e6cb5.
The problem that the original commit was attempting to fix can
never happen in practice because validation is done one a per-flow
basis rather than a per-packet basis. Adding additional checks at
runtime is unnecessary and inconsistent with the rest of the code.
CC: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If there is no OVS_SAMPLE_ATTR_ACTIONS set then "acts_list" is NULL and
it leads to a NULL dereference when we call nla_len(acts_list). This
is a static checker fix, not something I have seen in testing.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jesse Gross says:
====================
A few bug fixes and small enhancements for net-next/3.6.
...
Ansis Atteka (1):
openvswitch: Do not send notification if ovs_vport_set_options() failed
Ben Pfaff (1):
openvswitch: Check gso_type for correct sk_buff in queue_gso_packets().
Jesse Gross (2):
openvswitch: Enable retrieval of TCP flags from IPv6 traffic.
openvswitch: Reset upper layer protocol info on internal devices.
Leo Alterman (1):
openvswitch: Fix typo in documentation.
Pravin B Shelar (1):
openvswitch: Check currect return value from skb_gso_segment()
Raju Subramanian (1):
openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
At the point where it was used, skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type referred to a
post-GSO sk_buff. Thus, it would always be 0. We want to know the pre-GSO
gso_type, so we need to obtain it before segmenting.
Before this change, the kernel would pass inconsistent data to userspace:
packets for UDP fragments with nonzero offset would be passed along with
flow keys that indicate a zero offset (that is, the flow key for "later"
fragments claimed to be "first" fragments). This inconsistency tended
to confuse Open vSwitch userspace, causing it to log messages about
"failed to flow_del" the flows with "later" fragments.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
It's possible that packets that are sent on internal devices (from
the OVS perspective) have already traversed the local IP stack.
After they go through the internal device, they will again travel
through the IP stack which may get confused by the presence of
existing information in the skb. The problem can be observed
when switching between namespaces. This clears out that information
to avoid problems but deliberately leaves other metadata alone.
This is to provide maximum flexibility in chaining together OVS
and other Linux components.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Standardize the net core ratelimited logging functions.
Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Change a printk then vprintk sequence to use printf extension %pV.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
"skb" is non-NULL here, for example we dereference it in skb_clone().
The intent was to test "nskb" which was just set.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the kernel validates set TCP/UDP port actions, it looks at
the ports in the existing flow to make sure that the L4 header exists.
However, these actions always use the IPv4 version of the struct.
Following patch fixes this by checking for flow ip protocol first.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
This patch fixes a possible lock-up bug where rtnl_lock might not
get released.
Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no need to send a notification if ovs_vport_set_options() failed
and ovs_vport_cmd_set() did not change anything.
Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
We currently check that a packet is IPv4 and TCP before fetching the
TCP flags. This enables fetching from IPv6 packets as well.
Reported-by: Michael Mao <mmao@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
When collecting TCP flags we check that the IP header indicates that
a TCP header is present but not that the packet is actually long
enough to contain the header. This adds a check to prevent reading
off the end of the packet.
In practice, this is only likely to result in reading of bad data and
not a crash due to the presence of struct skb_shared_info at the end
of the packet.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
When modifying IP addresses or ports on a UDP packet we don't
correctly follow the rules for unchecksummed packets. This meant
that packets without a checksum can be given a incorrect new checksum
and packets with a checksum can become marked as being unchecksummed.
This fixes it to handle those requirements.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
When OVS_VPORT_ATTR_NAME is specified and dp_ifindex is nonzero, the
logical behavior would be for the vport name lookup scope to be limited
to the specified datapath, but in fact the dp_ifindex value was ignored.
This commit causes the search scope to be honored.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Use eth_hw_addr_random() instead of calling random_ether_addr()
to set addr_assign_type correctly to NET_ADDR_RANDOM.
Reset the state to NET_ADDR_PERM as soon as the MAC get
changed via .ndo_set_mac_address.
v2: adapt to renamed eth_hw_addr_random()
Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The logic to split up the list of datapaths into multiple Netlink messages
was simply wrong, causing the list to be terminated after the first part.
Only about the first 50 datapaths would be dumped. This fixes the
problem.
Reported-by: Paul Ingram <paul@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
remove version.h includes in net/openswitch/ as reported by make versioncheck.
Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We're unlikely to hit this leak, but the static checkers complain if we
don't take care of it.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
