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2017-07-03openvswitch: fix mis-ordered comment lines for ovs_skb_cbDaniel Axtens
I was trying to wrap my head around meaning of mru, and realised that the second line of the comment defining it had somehow ended up after the line defining cutlen, leading to much confusion. Reorder the lines to make sense. Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-22openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use casesandy zhou
With the introduction of open flow 'clone' action, the OVS user space can now translate the 'clone' action into kernel datapath 'sample' action, with 100% probability, to ensure that the clone semantics, which is that the packet seen by the clone action is the same as the packet seen by the action after clone, is faithfully carried out in the datapath. While the sample action in the datpath has the matching semantics, its implementation is only optimized for its original use. Specifically, there are two limitation: First, there is a 3 level of nesting restriction, enforced at the flow downloading time. This limit turns out to be too restrictive for the 'clone' use case. Second, the implementation avoid recursive call only if the sample action list has a single userspace action. The main optimization implemented in this series removes the static nesting limit check, instead, implement the run time recursion limit check, and recursion avoidance similar to that of the 'recirc' action. This optimization solve both #1 and #2 issues above. One related optimization attempts to avoid copying flow key as long as the actions enclosed does not change the flow key. The detection is performed only once at the flow downloading time. Another related optimization is to rewrite the action list at flow downloading time in order to save the fast path from parsing the sample action list in its original form repeatedly. Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@ovn.org> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-18netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned intAlexey Dobriyan
Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned. There are 2 reasons to do so: 1) This field is really an index into an zero based array and thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound access by definition. 2) On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers are preffered to signed 32-bit data. "int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended to 64-bit before being used. void f(long *p, int i) { g(p[i]); } roughly translates to movsx rsi, esi mov rdi, [rsi+...] call g MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default. Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses "int" as an array index: static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id) { ... ptr = ng->ptr[id - 1]; ... } And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up. Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk messing with code generation): add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730) Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger. This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be used which is longer than [r8] However, overall balance is in negative direction: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730) function old new delta nfsd4_lock 3886 3959 +73 tipc_link_build_proto_msg 1096 1140 +44 mac80211_hwsim_new_radio 2776 2808 +32 tipc_mon_rcv 1032 1058 +26 svcauth_gss_legacy_init 1413 1429 +16 tipc_bcbase_select_primary 379 392 +13 nfsd4_exchange_id 1247 1260 +13 nfsd4_setclientid_confirm 782 793 +11 ... put_client_renew_locked 494 480 -14 ip_set_sockfn_get 730 716 -14 geneve_sock_add 829 813 -16 nfsd4_sequence_done 721 703 -18 nlmclnt_lookup_host 708 686 -22 nfsd4_lockt 1085 1063 -22 nfs_get_client 1077 1050 -27 tcf_bpf_init 1106 1076 -30 nfsd4_encode_fattr 5997 5930 -67 Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-06-10openvswitch: Add packet truncation support.William Tu
The patch adds a new OVS action, OVS_ACTION_ATTR_TRUNC, in order to truncate packets. A 'max_len' is added for setting up the maximum packet size, and a 'cutlen' field is to record the number of bytes to trim the packet when the packet is outputting to a port, or when the packet is sent to userspace. Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-01ovs: propagate per dp max headroom to all vportsPaolo Abeni
This patch implements bookkeeping support to compute the maximum headroom for all the devices in each datapath. When said value changes, the underlying devs are notified via the ndo_set_rx_headroom method. This also increases the internal vports xmit performance. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-22openvswitch: Fix egress tunnel info.Pravin B Shelar
While transitioning to netdev based vport we broke OVS feature which allows user to retrieve tunnel packet egress information for lwtunnel devices. Following patch fixes it by introducing ndo operation to get the tunnel egress info. Same ndo operation can be used for lwtunnel devices and compat ovs-tnl-vport devices. So after adding such device operation we can remove similar operation from ovs-vport. Fixes: 614732eaa12d ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device"). Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-31ip-tunnel: Use API to access tunnel metadata options.Pravin B Shelar
Currently tun-info options pointer is used in few cases to pass options around. But tunnel options can be accessed using ip_tunnel_info_opts() API without using the pointer. Following patch removes the redundant pointer and consistently make use of API. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-29openvswitch: Remove vport-netPravin B Shelar
This structure is not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-29openvswitch: Remove egress_tun_info.Pravin B Shelar
tun info is passed using skb-dst pointer. Now we have converted all vports to netdev based implementation so Now we can remove redundant pointer to tun-info from OVS_CB. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Allow matching on conntrack labelJoe Stringer
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>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Add conntrack actionJoe Stringer
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>
2015-08-27openvswitch: Move MASKED* macros to datapath.hJoe Stringer
This will allow the ovs-conntrack code to reuse these macros. 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>
2015-07-21ip_tunnel: Make ovs_tunnel_info and ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel genericThomas Graf
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>
2015-06-01openvswitch: include datapath actions with sampled-packet upcall to userspaceNeil McKee
If new optional attribute OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_ACTIONS is added to an OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE action, then include the datapath actions in the upcall. This Directly associates the sampled packet with the path it takes through the virtual switch. Path information currently includes mangling, encapsulation and decapsulation actions for tunneling protocols GRE, VXLAN, Geneve, MPLS and QinQ, but this extension requires no further changes to accommodate datapath actions that may be added in the future. Adding path information enhances visibility into complex virtual networks. Signed-off-by: Neil McKee <neil.mckee@inmon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-12net: Introduce possible_net_tEric W. Biederman
Having to say > #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS > struct net *net; > #endif in structures is a little bit wordy and a little bit error prone. Instead it is possible to say: > typedef struct { > #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS > struct net *net; > #endif > } possible_net_t; And then in a header say: > possible_net_t net; Which is cleaner and easier to use and easier to test, as the possible_net_t is always there no matter what the compile options. Further this allows read_pnet and write_pnet to be functions in all cases which is better at catching typos. This change adds possible_net_t, updates the definitions of read_pnet and write_pnet, updates optional struct net * variables that write_pnet uses on to have the type possible_net_t, and finally fixes up the b0rked users of read_pnet and write_pnet. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-09openvswitch: Add support for OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE.Jarno Rajahalme
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>
2014-11-09openvswitch: Constify various function argumentsThomas Graf
Help produce better optimized code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-09openvswitch: Remove redundant key ref from upcall_info.Pravin B Shelar
struct dp_upcall_info has pointer to pkt_key which is already available in OVS_CB. This also simplifies upcall handling for gso packet. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
2014-11-09openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel infoWenyu Zhang
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>
2014-11-05openvswitch: Remove flow member from struct ovs_skb_cbLorand Jakab
The 'flow' memeber was chosen for removal because it's only used in ovs_execute_actions() we can pass it as argument to this function. Signed-off-by: Lorand Jakab <lojakab@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-10-06openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure.Jesse Gross
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>
2014-09-15openvswitch: Add recirc and hash action.Andy Zhou
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>
2014-09-15openvswitch: Use tun_key only for egress tunnel path.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2014-09-15openvswitch: refactor ovs flow extract API.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2014-09-15openvswitch: Remove pkt_key from OVS_CBPravin B Shelar
OVS keeps pointer to packet key in skb->cb, but the packet key is store on stack. This could make code bit tricky. So it is better to get rid of the pointer. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-07-30net: Remove unlikely() for WARN_ON() conditionsThomas Graf
No need for the unlikely(), WARN_ON() and BUG_ON() internally use unlikely() on the condition. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-16openvswitch: Use net_ratelimit in OVS_NLERRJoe Perches
Each use of pr_<level>_once has a per-site flag. Some of the OVS_NLERR messages look as if seeing them multiple times could be useful, so use net_ratelimit() instead of pr_info_once. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-02-15openvswitch: rename ->sync to ->syncpWANG Cong
Openvswitch defines u64_stats_sync as ->sync rather than ->syncp, so fails to compile with netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(). So just rename it to ->syncp. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Fixes: 1c213bd24ad04f4430031 (net: introduce netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats() for drivers) Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06ovs: make functions localStephen Hemminger
Several functions and datastructures could be local Found with 'make namespacecheck' Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06openvswitch: Allow user space to announce ability to accept unaligned ↵Thomas Graf
Netlink messages Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06openvswitch: Silence RCU lockdep checks from flow lookup.Jesse Gross
Flow lookup can happen either in packet processing context or userspace context but it was annotated as requiring RCU read lock to be held. This also allows OVS mutex to be held without causing warnings. Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
2013-11-19genetlink: pass family to functions using groupsJohannes Berg
This doesn't really change anything, but prepares for the next patch that will change the APIs to pass the group ID within the family, rather than the global group ID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-22openvswitch: collect mega flow mask statsAndy Zhou
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>
2013-10-04openvswitch: Move mega-flow list out of rehashing struct.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-10-03openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.cPravin B Shelar
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>
2013-09-17openvswitch: Move flow table rehashing to flow install.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-08-23openvswitch: Mega flow implementationAndy Zhou
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>
2013-06-19openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-06-19openvswitch: Add tunneling interface.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-04-15openvswitch: Simplify datapath locking.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-04-10openvswitch: datapath.h: Fix a stale comment.Andy Zhou
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-02-22openvswitch: Allow OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA to be variable length.Ben Pfaff
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>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman
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>
2012-09-03openvswitch: Increase maximum number of datapath ports.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2012-08-22openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2012-05-03openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks.Raju Subramanian
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>
2012-01-17net: remove version.h includes in net/openvswitch/Devendra Naga
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>
2011-12-03net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.Jesse Gross
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>