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authorJoe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>2015-01-21 16:42:52 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-26 15:45:50 -0800
commit74ed7ab9264c54471c7f057409d352052820d750 (patch)
treef90152a0560337fceaf55538a9e57e8c9aaa9182 /net/openvswitch/flow_table.h
parent7b1883cefc288b2725966357edd2d8f321605622 (diff)
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 'net/openvswitch/flow_table.h')
-rw-r--r--net/openvswitch/flow_table.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.h b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.h
index 309fa6415689..616eda10d955 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.h
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.h
@@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ struct table_instance {
struct flow_table {
struct table_instance __rcu *ti;
+ struct table_instance __rcu *ufid_ti;
struct list_head mask_list;
unsigned long last_rehash;
unsigned int count;
+ unsigned int ufid_count;
};
extern struct kmem_cache *flow_stats_cache;
@@ -78,8 +80,10 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_tbl_lookup(struct flow_table *,
const struct sw_flow_key *);
struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_exact(struct flow_table *tbl,
const struct sw_flow_match *match);
-bool ovs_flow_cmp_unmasked_key(const struct sw_flow *flow,
- const struct sw_flow_match *match);
+struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_ufid(struct flow_table *,
+ const struct sw_flow_id *);
+
+bool ovs_flow_cmp(const struct sw_flow *, const struct sw_flow_match *);
void ovs_flow_mask_key(struct sw_flow_key *dst, const struct sw_flow_key *src,
const struct sw_flow_mask *mask);