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openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.

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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>
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Joe Stringer 2015-01-21 16:42:52 -08:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent 7b1883cefc
commit 74ed7ab926
8 changed files with 448 additions and 91 deletions
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include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
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@ -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.
@ -474,11 +482,23 @@ 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