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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h
index 9ed09e66876a..5c3d75bff310 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ int ovs_nla_put_key(const struct sw_flow_key *, const struct sw_flow_key *,
 int ovs_nla_get_flow_metadata(const struct nlattr *, struct sw_flow_key *,
                               bool log);
 
-int ovs_nla_put_unmasked_key(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb);
+int ovs_nla_put_identifier(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb);
+int ovs_nla_put_masked_key(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb);
 int ovs_nla_put_mask(const struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb);
 
 int ovs_nla_get_match(struct sw_flow_match *, const struct nlattr *key,
@@ -56,6 +57,11 @@ int ovs_nla_get_match(struct sw_flow_match *, const struct nlattr *key,
 int ovs_nla_put_egress_tunnel_key(struct sk_buff *,
                                   const struct ovs_tunnel_info *);
 
+bool ovs_nla_get_ufid(struct sw_flow_id *, const struct nlattr *, bool log);
+int ovs_nla_get_identifier(struct sw_flow_id *sfid, const struct nlattr *ufid,
+                           const struct sw_flow_key *key, bool log);
+u32 ovs_nla_get_ufid_flags(const struct nlattr *attr);
+
 int ovs_nla_copy_actions(const struct nlattr *attr,
                          const struct sw_flow_key *key,
                          struct sw_flow_actions **sfa, bool log);