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authorJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>2011-10-25 19:26:31 -0700
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>2011-12-03 09:35:17 -0800
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tree9122ceff5d75ec64e327a9fad4ad2013744c2999 /Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
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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>
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@@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ nfc.txt
- The Linux Near Field Communication (NFS) subsystem.
olympic.txt
- IBM PCI Pit/Pit-Phy/Olympic Token Ring driver info.
+openvswitch.txt
+ - Open vSwitch developer documentation.
operstates.txt
- Overview of network interface operational states.
packet_mmap.txt