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Jiri Benc
e2d9d8358c openvswitch: pass mac_proto to ovs_vport_send
We'll need it to alter packets sent to ARPHRD_NONE interfaces.

Change do_output() to use the actual L2 header size of the packet when
deciding on the minimum cutlen. The assumption here is that what matters is
not the output interface hard_header_len but rather the L2 header of the
particular packet. For example, ARPHRD_NONE tunnels that encapsulate
Ethernet should get at least the Ethernet header.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-13 00:51:02 -05:00
Jiri Benc
f33eb0cf99 openvswitch: remove unused functions
ovs_vport_deferred_free is not used anywhere. It's the only caller of
free_vport_rcu thus this one can be removed, too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-19 15:11:55 -04:00
Daniel Borkmann
6b83d28a55 net: use skb_postpush_rcsum instead of own implementations
Replace individual implementations with the recently introduced
skb_postpush_rcsum() helper.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-19 23:43:10 -05:00
Jean Sacren
c5420eb12f openvswitch: update kernel doc for struct vport
commit be4ace6e6b ("openvswitch: Move dev pointer into vport itself")

The commit above added @dev and moved @rcu to the bottom of struct
vport, but the change was not reflected in the kernel doc. So let's
update the kernel doc as well.

Signed-off-by: Jean Sacren <sakiwit@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 23:49:21 -05:00
Jean Sacren
5ea030429f openvswitch: clean up unused function
commit 6b001e682e ("openvswitch: Use Geneve device.")

The commit above deleted the only call site of ovs_tunnel_route_lookup()
and now that function is not used any more. So let's delete the function
definition as well.

Signed-off-by: Jean Sacren <sakiwit@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-10 23:49:21 -05:00
Paolo Abeni
83e4bf7a74 openvswitch: properly refcount vport-vxlan module
After 614732eaa1, no refcount is maintained for the vport-vxlan module.
This allows the userspace to remove such module while vport-vxlan
devices still exist, which leads to later oops.

v1 -> v2:
 - move vport 'owner' initialization in ovs_vport_ops_register()
   and make such function a macro

Fixes: 614732eaa1 ("openvswitch: Use regular VXLAN net_device device")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-12-02 11:50:59 -05:00
David S. Miller
ba3e2084f2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
	net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
	net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.c
	net/openvswitch/vport.h

The openvswitch conflicts were overlapping changes.  One was
the egress tunnel info fix in 'net' and the other was the
vport ->send() op simplification in 'net-next'.

The xfrm6_output.c conflicts was also a simplification
overlapping a bug fix.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-24 06:54:12 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
fc4099f172 openvswitch: Fix egress tunnel info.
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: 614732eaa1 ("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>
2015-10-22 19:39:25 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
aec1592474 openvswitch: Use dev_queue_xmit for vport send.
With use of lwtunnel, we can directly call dev_queue_xmit()
rather than calling netdev vport send operation.
Following change make tunnel vport code bit cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-22 06:46:16 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
4c22279848 ip-tunnel: Use API to access tunnel metadata options.
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>
2015-08-31 12:28:56 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
a581b96dbf openvswitch: Remove vport-net
This structure is not used anymore.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-29 19:07:15 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
8c876639c9 openvswitch: Remove vport stats.
Since all vport types are now backed by netdev, we can directly
use netdev stats. Following patch removes redundant stat
from vport.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-29 19:07:15 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
3eedb41fb4 openvswitch: Remove egress_tun_info.
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>
2015-08-29 19:07:15 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
24d43f32d8 openvswitch: Remove vport get_name()
Remove unused get_name() function pointer from vport ops.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-29 19:07:15 -07:00
Jiri Benc
7c383fb225 ip_tunnels: use tos and ttl fields also for IPv6
Rename the ipv4_tos and ipv4_ttl fields to just 'tos' and 'ttl', as they'll
be used with IPv6 tunnels, too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-20 15:42:36 -07:00
Jiri Benc
c1ea5d672a ip_tunnels: add IPv6 addresses to ip_tunnel_key
Add the IPv6 addresses as an union with IPv4 ones. When using IPv4, the
newly introduced padding after the IPv4 addresses needs to be zeroed out.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-20 15:42:36 -07:00
Thomas Graf
c9db965c52 openvswitch: Abstract vport name through ovs_vport_name()
This allows to get rid of the get_name() vport ops later on.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:39:07 -07:00
Thomas Graf
be4ace6e6b openvswitch: Move dev pointer into vport itself
This is the first step in representing all OVS vports as regular
struct net_devices. Move the net_device pointer into the vport
structure itself to get rid of struct vport_netdev.

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
Thomas Graf
3093fbe7ff route: Per route IP tunnel metadata via lightweight tunnel
This introduces a new IP tunnel lightweight tunnel type which allows
to specify IP tunnel instructions per route. Only IPv4 is supported
at this point.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21 10:39:06 -07:00
Thomas Graf
1d8fff9073 ip_tunnel: Make ovs_tunnel_info and ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel generic
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>
2015-07-21 10:39:05 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
7b4577a9da openvswitch: Fix net exit.
Open vSwitch allows moving internal vport to different namespace
while still connected to the bridge. But when namespace deleted
OVS does not detach these vports, that results in dangling
pointer to netdevice which causes kernel panic as follows.
This issue is fixed by detaching all ovs ports from the deleted
namespace at net-exit.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffffa0aadaa5>] ovs_vport_locate+0x35/0x80 [openvswitch]
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0aa6391>] lookup_vport+0x21/0xd0 [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffffa0aa65f9>] ovs_vport_cmd_get+0x59/0xf0 [openvswitch]
 [<ffffffff8167e07c>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1bc/0x3e0
 [<ffffffff8167e319>] genl_rcv_msg+0x79/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8167d919>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xb9/0xe0
 [<ffffffff8167deac>] genl_rcv+0x2c/0x40
 [<ffffffff8167cffd>] netlink_unicast+0x12d/0x1c0
 [<ffffffff8167d3da>] netlink_sendmsg+0x34a/0x6b0
 [<ffffffff8162e140>] sock_sendmsg+0xa0/0xe0
 [<ffffffff8162e5e8>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x408/0x420
 [<ffffffff8162f541>] __sys_sendmsg+0x51/0x90
 [<ffffffff8162f592>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20
 [<ffffffff81764ee9>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17

Reported-by: Assaf Muller <amuller@redhat.com>
Fixes: 46df7b81454("openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.")
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-20 15:32:08 -05:00
Fan Du
3f4c1d87af openvswitch: Introduce ovs_tunnel_route_lookup
Introduce ovs_tunnel_route_lookup to consolidate route lookup
shared by vxlan, gre, and geneve ports.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-14 16:32:06 -05:00
Thomas Graf
12eb18f711 openvswitch: Constify various function arguments
Help produce better optimized code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-11-09 18:58:44 -08:00
Wenyu Zhang
8f0aad6f35 openvswitch: Extend packet attribute for egress tunnel info
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>
2014-11-09 18:58:44 -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
Jesse Gross
f0b128c1e2 openvswitch: Wrap struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel in a new structure.
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>
2014-10-06 00:32:20 -04:00
Wang Sheng-Hui
8280bf00fd net/openvswitch: remove dup comment in vport.h
Remove the duplicated comment
"/* The following definitions are for users of the vport subsytem: */"
in vport.h

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-26 16:42:33 -04:00
Li RongQing
e403aded79 openvswitch: change the data type of error status to atomic_long_t
Change the date type of error status from u64 to atomic_long_t, and use atomic
operation, then remove the lock which is used to protect the error status.

The operation of atomic maybe faster than spin lock.

Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-09 11:48:07 -07:00
Alex Wang
5cd667b0a4 openvswitch: Allow each vport to have an array of 'port_id's.
In order to allow handlers directly read upcalls from datapath,
we need to support per-handler netlink socket for each vport in
datapath.  This commit makes this happen.  Also, it is guaranteed
to be backward compatible with previous branch.

Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
2014-07-24 01:15:04 -07:00
Daniele Di Proietto
07dc0602c5 openvswitch: avoid cast-qual warning in vport_priv
This function must cast a const value to a non const value.
By adding an uintptr_t cast the warning is suppressed.
To avoid the cast (proper solution) several function signatures
must be changed.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <daniele.di.proietto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-05-16 13:40:28 -07:00
Daniele Di Proietto
d0b4da1375 openvswitch: avoid warnings in vport_from_priv
This change, firstly, avoids declaring the formal parameter const,
since it is treated as non const. (to avoid -Wcast-qual)
Secondly, it cast the pointer from void* to u8*, since it is used
in arithmetic (to avoid -Wpointer-arith)

Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <daniele.di.proietto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-05-16 13:40:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
39b6b2992f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
Jesse Gross says:

====================
[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
443cd88c8a ovs: make functions local
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>
2014-01-06 15:54:39 -08:00
Li RongQing
8f84985fec net: unify the pcpu_tstats and br_cpu_netstats as one
They are same, so unify them as one, pcpu_sw_netstats.

Define pcpu_sw_netstat in netdevice.h, remove pcpu_tstats
from if_tunnel and remove br_cpu_netstats from br_private.h

Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-04 20:10:24 -05:00
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
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
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
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
Pravin B Shelar
91b7514cdf openvswitch: Unify vport error stats handling.
Following patch changes vport->send return type so that vport
layer can do error accounting.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-14 15:09:10 -07:00
Jesse Gross
cbd531bebb openvswitch: Remove unused get_config vport op.
The get_config vport op is left over from old compatibility code,
it is neither used nor implemented any more.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-06-14 15:09:09 -07:00
Thomas Graf
cff63a5292 openvswitch: Remove unneeded ovs_netdev_get_ifindex()
The only user is get_dpifindex(), no need to redirect via the port
operations.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-30 00:19:11 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar
e0f0ecf33c openvswitch: Use generic struct pcpu_tstats.
Rather than defining ovs specific stats struct (vport_percpu_stats),
we can use existing pcpu_tstats to achieve exactly same functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2013-04-15 14:56:25 -07:00
Pravin B Shelar
8e4e1713e4 openvswitch: Simplify datapath locking.
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>
2013-04-15 14:38:40 -07:00
Thomas Graf
03599c9411 openvswitch: Avoid useless holes in struct vport
Having the 16bit port_no in between a set of pointers creates
an unwanted and useless hole in the struct.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2012-12-04 09:28:03 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
15e473046c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
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>
2012-09-10 15:30:41 -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
Pravin B Shelar
46df7b8145 openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.
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>
2012-08-22 14:48:55 -07:00
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
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