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author | Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> | 2015-01-22 03:42:52 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-01-27 02:45:50 +0300 |
commit | 74ed7ab9264c54471c7f057409d352052820d750 (patch) | |
tree | f90152a0560337fceaf55538a9e57e8c9aaa9182 /include | |
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 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h index cd8d933963c2..7a8785a99243 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h @@ -459,6 +459,14 @@ struct ovs_key_nd { * a wildcarded match. Omitting attribute is treated as wildcarding all * corresponding fields. Optional for all requests. If not present, * all flow key bits are exact match bits. + * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID: A value between 1-16 octets specifying a unique + * identifier for the flow. Causes the flow to be indexed by this value rather + * than the value of the %OVS_FLOW_ATTR_KEY attribute. Optional for all + * requests. Present in notifications if the flow was created with this + * attribute. + * @OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID_FLAGS: A 32-bit value of OR'd %OVS_UFID_F_* + * flags that provide alternative semantics for flow installation and + * retrieval. Optional for all requests. * * These attributes follow the &struct ovs_header within the Generic Netlink * payload for %OVS_FLOW_* commands. @@ -474,12 +482,24 @@ enum ovs_flow_attr { OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MASK, /* Sequence of OVS_KEY_ATTR_* attributes. */ OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE, /* Flow operation is a feature probe, error * logging should be suppressed. */ + OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID, /* Variable length unique flow identifier. */ + OVS_FLOW_ATTR_UFID_FLAGS,/* u32 of OVS_UFID_F_*. */ __OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MAX }; #define OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MAX (__OVS_FLOW_ATTR_MAX - 1) /** + * Omit attributes for notifications. + * + * If a datapath request contains an %OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_* flag, then the datapath + * may omit the corresponding %OVS_FLOW_ATTR_* from the response. + */ +#define OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_KEY (1 << 0) +#define OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_MASK (1 << 1) +#define OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_ACTIONS (1 << 2) + +/** * enum ovs_sample_attr - Attributes for %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SAMPLE action. * @OVS_SAMPLE_ATTR_PROBABILITY: 32-bit fraction of packets to sample with * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SAMPLE. A value of 0 samples no packets, a value of |