Merge branch 'ovs_flowids'
Joe Stringer says:
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openvswitch: Introduce 128-bit unique flow identifiers.
This series extends the openvswitch datapath interface for flow commands to use
128-bit unique identifiers as an alternative to the netlink-formatted flow key.
This significantly reduces the cost of assembling messages between the kernel
and userspace, in particular improving Open vSwitch revalidation performance by
40% or more.
v14:
- Perform lookup using unmasked key in legacy case.
- Fix minor checkpatch.pl style violations.
v13:
- Embed sw_flow_id in sw_flow to save memory allocation in UFID case.
- Malloc unmasked key for id in non-UFID case.
- Fix bug where non-UFID case could double-serialize keys.
v12:
- Userspace patches fully merged into Open vSwitch master
- New minor refactor patches (2,3,4)
- Merge unmasked_key, ufid representation of flow identifier in sw_flow
- Improve memory allocation sizes when serializing ufid
- Handle corner case where a flow_new is requested with a flow that has an
identical ufid as an existing flow, but a different flow key
- Limit UFID to between 1-16 octets inclusive.
- Add various helper functions to improve readibility
v11:
- Pushed most of the prerequisite patches for this series to OVS master.
- Split out openvswitch.h interface changes from datapath implementation
- Datapath implementation to be reviewed on net-next, separately
v10:
- New patch allowing datapath to serialize masked keys
- Simplify datapath interface by accepting UFID or flow_key, but not both
- Flows set up with UFID must be queried/deleted using UFID
- Reduce sw_flow memory usage for UFID
- Don't periodically rehash UFID table in linux datapath
- Remove kernel_only UFID in linux datapath
v9:
- No kernel changes
v8:
- Rename UID -> UFID
- Fix null dereference in datapath when paired with older userspace
- All patches are reviewed/acked except datapath changes.
v7:
- Remove OVS_DP_F_INDEX_BY_UID
- Rework datapath UID serialization for variable length UIDs
v6:
- Reduce netlink conversions for all datapaths
- Various bugfixes
v5:
- Various bugfixes
- Improve logging
v4:
- Datapath memory leak fixes
- Enable UID-based terse dumping and deleting by default
- Various fixes
RFCv3:
- Add datapath implementation
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>