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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Currently tun_key is used for passing tunnel information
on ingress and egress path, this cause confusion. Following
patch removes its use on ingress path make it egress only parameter.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
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>
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 88d73f6c41 (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>
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>
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>
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>
The 5-tuple optimization becomes unnecessary with a later per-NUMA
node stats patch. Remove it first to make the changes easier to
grasp.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
