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Masahiro Yamada a7f7f6248d treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'
Since commit 84af7a6194 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Thomas Gleixner ec8f24b7fa treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Florian Westphal 3bf195ae60 netfilter: nat: merge nf_nat_ipv4,6 into nat core
before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16566    1576    4136   22278    5706 nf_nat.ko
   3598	    844	      0	   4442	   115a	nf_nat_ipv6.ko
   3187	    844	      0	   4031	    fbf	nf_nat_ipv4.ko

after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22948    1612    4136   28696    7018 nf_nat.ko

... with ipv4/v6 nat now provided directly via nf_nat.ko.

Also changes:
       ret = nf_nat_ipv4_fn(priv, skb, state);
       if (ret != NF_DROP && ret != NF_STOLEN &&
into
	if (ret != NF_ACCEPT)
		return ret;

everywhere.

The nat hooks never should return anything other than
ACCEPT or DROP (and the latter only in rare error cases).

The original code uses multi-line ANDing including assignment-in-if:
        if (ret != NF_DROP && ret != NF_STOLEN &&
           !(IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_XFRM_TRANSFORMED) &&
            (ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo)) != NULL) {

I removed this while moving, breaking those in separate conditionals
and moving the assignments into extra lines.

checkpatch still generates some warnings:
 1. Overly long lines (of moved code).
    Breaking them is even more ugly. so I kept this as-is.
 2. use of extern function declarations in a .c file.
    This is necessary evil, we must call
    nf_nat_l3proto_register() from the nat core now.
    All l3proto related functions are removed later in this series,
    those prototypes are then removed as well.

v2: keep empty nf_nat_ipv6_csum_update stub for CONFIG_IPV6=n case.
v3: remove IS_ENABLED(NF_NAT_IPV4/6) tests, NF_NAT_IPVx toggles
    are removed here.
v4: also get rid of the assignments in conditionals.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-02-27 10:49:55 +01:00
Yi-Hung Wei 11efd5cb04 openvswitch: Support conntrack zone limit
Currently, nf_conntrack_max is used to limit the maximum number of
conntrack entries in the conntrack table for every network namespace.
For the VMs and containers that reside in the same namespace,
they share the same conntrack table, and the total # of conntrack entries
for all the VMs and containers are limited by nf_conntrack_max.  In this
case, if one of the VM/container abuses the usage the conntrack entries,
it blocks the others from committing valid conntrack entries into the
conntrack table.  Even if we can possibly put the VM in different network
namespace, the current nf_conntrack_max configuration is kind of rigid
that we cannot limit different VM/container to have different # conntrack
entries.

To address the aforementioned issue, this patch proposes to have a
fine-grained mechanism that could further limit the # of conntrack entries
per-zone.  For example, we can designate different zone to different VM,
and set conntrack limit to each zone.  By providing this isolation, a
mis-behaved VM only consumes the conntrack entries in its own zone, and
it will not influence other well-behaved VMs.  Moreover, the users can
set various conntrack limit to different zone based on their preference.

The proposed implementation utilizes Netfilter's nf_conncount backend
to count the number of connections in a particular zone.  If the number of
connection is above a configured limitation, ovs will return ENOMEM to the
userspace.  If userspace does not configure the zone limit, the limit
defaults to zero that is no limitation, which is backward compatible to
the behavior without this patch.

The following high leve APIs are provided to the userspace:
  - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_SET:
    * set default connection limit for all zones
    * set the connection limit for a particular zone
  - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_DEL:
    * remove the connection limit for a particular zone
  - OVS_CT_LIMIT_CMD_GET:
    * get the default connection limit for all zones
    * get the connection limit for a particular zone

Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-25 16:45:19 -04:00
Yi Yang b2d0f5d5dc openvswitch: enable NSH support
v16->17
 - Fixed disputed check code: keep them in nsh_push and nsh_pop
   but also add them in __ovs_nla_copy_actions

v15->v16
 - Add csum recalculation for nsh_push, nsh_pop and set_nsh
   pointed out by Pravin
 - Move nsh key into the union with ipv4 and ipv6 and add
   check for nsh key in match_validate pointed out by Pravin
 - Add nsh check in validate_set and __ovs_nla_copy_actions

v14->v15
 - Check size in nsh_hdr_from_nlattr
 - Fixed four small issues pointed out By Jiri and Eric

v13->v14
 - Rename skb_push_nsh to nsh_push per Dave's comment
 - Rename skb_pop_nsh to nsh_pop per Dave's comment

v12->v13
 - Fix NSH header length check in set_nsh

v11->v12
 - Fix missing changes old comments pointed out
 - Fix new comments for v11

v10->v11
 - Fix the left three disputable comments for v9
   but not fixed in v10.

v9->v10
 - Change struct ovs_key_nsh to
       struct ovs_nsh_key_base base;
       __be32 context[NSH_MD1_CONTEXT_SIZE];
 - Fix new comments for v9

v8->v9
 - Fix build error reported by daily intel build
   because nsh module isn't selected by openvswitch

v7->v8
 - Rework nested value and mask for OVS_KEY_ATTR_NSH
 - Change pop_nsh to adapt to nsh kernel module
 - Fix many issues per comments from Jiri Benc

v6->v7
 - Remove NSH GSO patches in v6 because Jiri Benc
   reworked it as another patch series and they have
   been merged.
 - Change it to adapt to nsh kernel module added by NSH
   GSO patch series

v5->v6
 - Fix the rest comments for v4.
 - Add NSH GSO support for VxLAN-gpe + NSH and
   Eth + NSH.

v4->v5
 - Fix many comments by Jiri Benc and Eric Garver
   for v4.

v3->v4
 - Add new NSH match field ttl
 - Update NSH header to the latest format
   which will be final format and won't change
   per its author's confirmation.
 - Fix comments for v3.

v2->v3
 - Change OVS_KEY_ATTR_NSH to nested key to handle
   length-fixed attributes and length-variable
   attriubte more flexibly.
 - Remove struct ovs_action_push_nsh completely
 - Add code to handle nested attribute for SET_MASKED
 - Change PUSH_NSH to use the nested OVS_KEY_ATTR_NSH
   to transfer NSH header data.
 - Fix comments and coding style issues by Jiri and Eric

v1->v2
 - Change encap_nsh and decap_nsh to push_nsh and pop_nsh
 - Dynamically allocate struct ovs_action_push_nsh for
   length-variable metadata.

OVS master and 2.8 branch has merged NSH userspace
patch series, this patch is to enable NSH support
in kernel data path in order that OVS can support
NSH in compat mode by porting this.

Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Garver <e@erig.me>
Acked-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-08 16:12:33 +09:00
Arnd Bergmann 99b7248e2a openvswitch: call only into reachable nf-nat code
The openvswitch code has gained support for calling into the
nf-nat-ipv4/ipv6 modules, however those can be loadable modules
in a configuration in which openvswitch is built-in, leading
to link errors:

net/built-in.o: In function `__ovs_ct_lookup':
:(.text+0x2cc2c8): undefined reference to `nf_nat_icmp_reply_translation'
:(.text+0x2cc66c): undefined reference to `nf_nat_icmpv6_reply_translation'

The dependency on (!NF_NAT || NF_NAT) prevents similar issues,
but NF_NAT is set to 'y' if any of the symbols selecting
it are built-in, but the link error happens when any of them
are modular.

A second issue is that even if CONFIG_NF_NAT_IPV6 is built-in,
CONFIG_NF_NAT_IPV4 might be completely disabled. This is unlikely
to be useful in practice, but the driver currently only handles
IPv6 being optional.

This patch improves the Kconfig dependency so that openvswitch
cannot be built-in if either of the two other symbols are set
to 'm', and it replaces the incorrect #ifdef in ovs_ct_nat_execute()
with two "if (IS_ENABLED())" checks that should catch all corner
cases also make the code more readable.

The same #ifdef exists ovs_ct_nat_to_attr(), where it does not
cause a link error, but for consistency I'm changing it the same
way.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 05752523e5 ("openvswitch: Interface with NAT.")
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-03-28 17:58:59 +02:00
Jarno Rajahalme 05752523e5 openvswitch: Interface with NAT.
Extend OVS conntrack interface to cover NAT.  New nested
OVS_CT_ATTR_NAT attribute may be used to include NAT with a CT action.
A bare OVS_CT_ATTR_NAT only mangles existing and expected connections.
If OVS_NAT_ATTR_SRC or OVS_NAT_ATTR_DST is included within the nested
attributes, new (non-committed/non-confirmed) connections are mangled
according to the rest of the nested attributes.

The corresponding OVS userspace patch series includes test cases (in
tests/system-traffic.at) that also serve as example uses.

This work extends on a branch by Thomas Graf at
https://github.com/tgraf/ovs/tree/nat.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-03-14 23:47:29 +01:00
Paolo Abeni d71785ffc7 net: add dst_cache to ovs vxlan lwtunnel
In case of UDP traffic with datagram length
below MTU this give about 2% performance increase
when tunneling over ipv4 and about 60% when tunneling
over ipv6

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Suggested-and-acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-16 20:21:48 -05:00
Joe Stringer 38c089d1d8 openvswitch: Fix dependency on IPv6 defrag.
When NF_CONNTRACK is built-in, NF_DEFRAG_IPV6 is a module, and
OPENVSWITCH is built-in, the following build error would occur:

net/built-in.o: In function `ovs_ct_execute':
(.text+0x10f587): undefined reference to `nf_ct_frag6_gather'

Fixes: 7f8a436eaa ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action")
Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
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>
2015-09-11 15:39:04 -07:00
Joe Stringer f88f69dd17 openvswitch: Remove conntrack Kconfig option.
There's no particular desire to have conntrack action support in Open
vSwitch as an independently configurable bit, rather just to ensure
there is not a hard dependency. This exposed option doesn't accurately
reflect the conntrack dependency when enabled, so simplify this by
removing the option. Compile the support if NF_CONNTRACK is enabled.

Fixes: 7f8a436eaa ("openvswitch: Add conntrack action")
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>
2015-09-06 23:48:33 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar 6b001e682e openvswitch: Use Geneve device.
With help of tunnel metadata mode OVS can directly use
Geneve devices to implement Geneve tunnels.
This patch removes all of the OVS specific Geneve code
and make OVS use a Geneve net_device. Basic geneve vport
is still there to handle compatibility with current
userspace application.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-27 15:42:47 -07:00
Joe Stringer 7f8a436eaa openvswitch: Add conntrack action
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>
2015-08-27 11:40:43 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar b2acd1dc39 openvswitch: Use regular GRE net_device instead of vport
Using GRE tunnel meta data collection feature, we can implement
OVS GRE vport. This patch removes all of the OVS
specific GRE code and make OVS use a ip_gre net_device.
Minimal GRE vport is kept to handle compatibility with
current userspace application.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-10 14:03:54 -07:00
Thomas Graf dcc38c033b openvswitch: Re-add CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN
This readds the config option CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN to avoid a
hard dependency of OVS on VXLAN. It moves the VXLAN config compat
code to vport-vxlan.c and allows compliation as a module.

Fixes: 614732eaa1 ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
Fixes: 2661371ace ("openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module")
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-29 23:03:10 -07:00
Nicolas Dichtel 2661371ace openvswitch: fix compilation when vxlan is a module
With CONFIG_VXLAN=m and CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=y, there was the following
compilation error:
  LD      init/built-in.o
  net/built-in.o: In function `vxlan_tnl_create':
  .../net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c:322: undefined reference to `vxlan_dev_create'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Fixes: 614732eaa1 ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-26 20:56:55 -07:00
Thomas Graf 614732eaa1 openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device
This gets rid of all OVS specific VXLAN code in the receive and
transmit path by using a VXLAN net_device to represent the vport.
Only a small shim layer remains which takes care of handling the
VXLAN specific OVS Netlink configuration.

Unexports vxlan_sock_add(), vxlan_sock_release(), vxlan_xmit_skb()
since they are no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:39:07 -07:00
John W. Linville 11e1fa46b4 geneve: Rename support library as geneve_core
net/ipv4/geneve.c -> net/ipv4/geneve_core.c

This name better reflects the purpose of the module.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13 15:59:13 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman 7d5f41f276 mpls: Fix the openvswitch select of NET_MPLS_GSO
Fix the OPENVSWITCH Kconfig option and old Kconfigs by having
OPENVSWITCH select both NET_MPLS_GSO and MPLSO.

A Kbuild test robot reported that when NET_MPLS_GSO is selected by
OPENVSWITCH the generated .config is broken because MPLS is not
selected.

Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Fixes: cec9166ca4 mpls: Refactor how the mpls module is built
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-08 19:30:06 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar 8cd4313aa7 openvswitch: Fix build failure.
Add dependency on INET to fix following build error. I have also
fixed MPLS dependency.

ERROR: "ip_route_output_flow" [net/openvswitch/openvswitch.ko]
undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-14 01:24:27 -05:00
Simon Horman 25cd9ba0ab openvswitch: Add basic MPLS support to kernel
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>
2014-11-05 23:52:33 -08:00
Thomas Graf 62b9c8d037 ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules
The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
lifetime.

Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
vport_ops_list.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-28 14:43:18 -04:00
Jesse Gross f579668406 openvswitch: Add support for Geneve tunneling.
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>
2014-10-06 00:32:21 -04:00
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
Pravin B Shelar 58264848a5 openvswitch: Add vxlan tunneling support.
Following patch adds vxlan vport type for openvswitch using
vxlan api. So now there is vxlan dependency for openvswitch.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
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>
2013-08-20 00:15:44 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar fb825a550a openvswitch: Add Kconfig dependency on GRE-DEMUX.
Openvswitch uses function from NET_IPGRE_DEMUX module.
Add Kconfig dependency to fix following compilation errors:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137244035226634

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-01 13:19:43 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar aa310701e7 openvswitch: Add gre tunnel support.
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>
2013-06-19 18:07:42 -07:00
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