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Pravin B Shelar e298e50570 openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats.
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>
2014-01-06 15:52:24 -08:00
Jarno Rajahalme 5eb26b156e openvswitch: TCP flags matching support.
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>
2013-11-01 18:43:45 -07:00
Jarno Rajahalme df23e9f642 openvswitch: Widen TCP flags handling.
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>
2013-11-01 18:43:45 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar e64457191a openvswitch: Restructure datapath.c and flow.c
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>
2013-10-03 18:16:47 -07:00
Daniel Borkmann 3bf4b5b11d net: ovs: flow: fix potential illegal memory access in __parse_flow_nlattrs
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>
2013-09-11 16:09:58 -04:00
Jesse Gross 0d40f75bda openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow_key.
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>
2013-09-05 15:54:37 -04:00
Andy Zhou 5828cd9a68 openvswitch: optimize flow compare and mask functions
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>
2013-08-27 13:13:09 -07:00
Andy Zhou 02237373b1 openvswitch: Rename key_len to key_end
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>
2013-08-26 14:03:14 -07:00
Joe Stringer a175a72330 openvswitch: Add SCTP support
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>
2013-08-26 14:03:13 -07:00
Andy Zhou 03f0d916aa openvswitch: Mega flow implementation
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>
2013-08-23 16:43:07 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 76a66c7e7f openvswitch: Use non rcu hlist_del() flow table entry.
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>
2013-08-23 16:38:00 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 42415c90ce openvswitch: Use correct type while allocating flex array.
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>
2013-08-14 15:48:17 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar a3e82996a8 openvswitch: Optimize flow key match for non tunnel flows.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 7d5437c709 openvswitch: Add tunneling interface.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 74f84a5726 openvswitch: Copy individual actions.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:41 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 93d8fd1514 openvswitch: Simplify interface ovs_flow_metadata_from_nlattrs()
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>
2013-06-14 15:09:12 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar b34df5e805 openvswitch: make skb->csum consistent with rest of networking stack.
Following patch keeps skb->csum correct across ovs.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-14 15:09:12 -07:00
Lorand Jakab 34d94f2102 openvswitch: fix variable names in comment
Signed-off-by: Lorand Jakab <lojakab@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-14 15:09:10 -07:00
David S. Miller 6e0895c2ea Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/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>
2013-04-22 20:32:51 -04:00
Thomas Graf 32686a9d29 openvswitch: Use nla_memcpy() to memcpy() data from attributes
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>
2013-03-29 17:53:46 -07:00
Simon Horman e5c5d22e8d net: add ETH_P_802_3_MIN
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>
2013-03-28 01:20:42 -04:00
Hong Zhiguo d3e1101c9b openvswitch: correct an invalid BUG_ON
table->count is uint32_t

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-03-27 09:07:41 -07:00
David S. Miller 296b60109e Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
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>
2013-03-15 09:00:39 -04:00
Sasha Levin b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
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>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
Rich Lane 17b682a048 openvswitch: Fix parsing invalid LLC/SNAP ethertypes
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>
2013-02-22 17:02:28 -08:00
Ansis Atteka 39c7caebc9 openvswitch: add skb mark matching and set action
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>
2012-11-26 11:33:18 -08:00
Mehak Mahajan c061853381 openvswitch: Process RARP packets with ethertype 0x8035 similar to ARP packets.
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>
2012-11-02 14:14:31 -07:00
Mehak Mahajan d04d382980 openvswitch: Store flow key len if ARP opcode is not request or reply.
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>
2012-10-30 17:17:09 -07:00
David S. Miller cefd81cfec Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch 2012-09-04 15:22:28 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar 15eac2a742 openvswitch: Increase maximum number of datapath ports.
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>
2012-09-03 19:20:49 -07:00
Wei Yongjun 80f0fd8a7f openvswitch: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code
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>
2012-08-31 15:55:38 -04:00
David S. Miller c073cfc89f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
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>
2012-07-20 16:16:34 -07:00
David S. Miller 028940342a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-16 22:17:37 -04:00
Raju Subramanian caf2ee14bb openvswitch: Replace Nicira Networks.
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>
2012-05-03 18:55:23 -07:00
Jesse Gross c55177e3e1 openvswitch: Enable retrieval of TCP flags from IPv6 traffic.
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>
2012-04-02 15:13:36 -07:00
Jesse Gross bf32fecdc1 openvswitch: Add length check when retrieving TCP flags.
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>
2012-04-02 14:28:57 -07:00
David S. Miller 028d6a6767 openvswitch: Stop using NLA_PUT*().
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>
2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
Shan Wei 2b2d465631 net: kill duplicate included header
For net part, remove duplicate included header.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-17 10:31:12 -05:00
Jesse Gross ccb1352e76 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>
2011-12-03 09:35:17 -08:00