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Message-Id: <20221122140307.705112-1-aconole@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:03:01 -0500
From: Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, dev@...nvswitch.org,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>,
Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC net-next 0/6] Allow excluding sw flow key from upcalls
Userspace applications can choose to completely ignore the kernel provided
flow key and instead regenerate a fresh key for processing in userspace.
Currently, userspace ovs-vswitchd does this in some instances (for example,
MISS upcall command). This means that kernel spends time to copy and send
the flow key into userspace without any benefit to the system.
Introduce a way for userspace to tell kernel not to send the flow key.
This lets userspace and kernel space save time and memory pressure.
This patch set is quite a bit larger because it introduces the ability to
decode a sw flow key into a compatible datapath-string. We use this as a
method of implementing a test to show that the feature is working by
decoding and dumping the flow (to make sure we capture the correct packet).
Aaron Conole (6):
openvswitch: exclude kernel flow key from upcalls
selftests: openvswitch: add interface support
selftests: openvswitch: add flow dump support
selftests: openvswitch: adjust datapath NL message
selftests: openvswitch: add upcall support
selftests: openvswitch: add exclude support for packet commands
include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 6 +
net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 26 +-
net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 2 +
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh | 101 +-
.../selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 1069 ++++++++++++++++-
5 files changed, 1183 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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2.34.3
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