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author | Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> | 2015-01-22 00:42:52 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-01-26 23:45:50 (GMT) |
commit | 74ed7ab9264c54471c7f057409d352052820d750 (patch) | |
tree | f90152a0560337fceaf55538a9e57e8c9aaa9182 /net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h | |
parent | 7b1883cefc288b2725966357edd2d8f321605622 (diff) | |
download | linux-74ed7ab9264c54471c7f057409d352052820d750.tar.xz |
openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.
Previously, flows were manipulated by userspace specifying a full,
unmasked flow key. This adds significant burden onto flow
serialization/deserialization, particularly when dumping flows.
This patch adds an alternative way to refer to flows using a
variable-length "unique flow identifier" (UFID). At flow setup time,
userspace may specify a UFID for a flow, which is stored with the flow
and inserted into a separate table for lookup, in addition to the
standard flow table. Flows created using a UFID must be fetched or
deleted using the UFID.
All flow dump operations may now be made more terse with OVS_UFID_F_*
flags. For example, the OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_KEY flag allows responses to
omit the flow key from a datapath operation if the flow has a
corresponding UFID. This significantly reduces the time spent assembling
and transacting netlink messages. With all OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_* flags
enabled, the datapath only returns the UFID and statistics for each flow
during flow dump, increasing ovs-vswitchd revalidator performance by 40%
or more.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h')
-rw-r--r-- | net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h index 9ed09e6..5c3d75b 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ int ovs_nla_put_key(const struct sw_flow_key *, const struct sw_flow_key *, int ovs_nla_get_flow_metadata(const struct nlattr *, struct sw_flow_key *, bool log); -int ovs_nla_put_unmasked_key(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb); +int ovs_nla_put_identifier(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb); +int ovs_nla_put_masked_key(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb); int ovs_nla_put_mask(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb); int ovs_nla_get_match(struct sw_flow_match *, const struct nlattr *key, @@ -56,6 +57,11 @@ int ovs_nla_get_match(struct sw_flow_match *, const struct nlattr *key, int ovs_nla_put_egress_tunnel_key(struct sk_buff *, const struct ovs_tunnel_info *); +bool ovs_nla_get_ufid(struct sw_flow_id *, const struct nlattr *, bool log); +int ovs_nla_get_identifier(struct sw_flow_id *sfid, const struct nlattr *ufid, + const struct sw_flow_key *key, bool log); +u32 ovs_nla_get_ufid_flags(const struct nlattr *attr); + int ovs_nla_copy_actions(const struct nlattr *attr, const struct sw_flow_key *key, struct sw_flow_actions **sfa, bool log); |