linux/net/openvswitch
andy zhou 798c166173 openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use cases
With the introduction of open flow 'clone' action, the OVS user space
can now translate the 'clone' action into kernel datapath 'sample'
action, with 100% probability, to ensure that the clone semantics,
which is that the packet seen by the clone action is the same as the
packet seen by the action after clone, is faithfully carried out
in the datapath.

While the sample action in the datpath has the matching semantics,
its implementation is only optimized for its original use.
Specifically, there are two limitation: First, there is a 3 level of
nesting restriction, enforced at the flow downloading time. This
limit turns out to be too restrictive for the 'clone' use case.
Second, the implementation avoid recursive call only if the sample
action list has a single userspace action.

The main optimization implemented in this series removes the static
nesting limit check, instead, implement the run time recursion limit
check, and recursion avoidance similar to that of the 'recirc' action.
This optimization solve both #1 and #2 issues above.

One related optimization attempts to avoid copying flow key as
long as the actions enclosed does not change the flow key. The
detection is performed only once at the flow downloading time.

Another related optimization is to rewrite the action list
at flow downloading time in order to save the fast path from parsing
the sample action list in its original form repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-22 11:28:35 -07:00
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actions.c openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use cases 2017-03-22 11:28:35 -07:00
conntrack.c ipv6: orphan skbs in reassembly unit 2017-03-01 20:55:57 -08:00
conntrack.h openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. 2017-02-09 22:59:34 -05:00
datapath.c openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling. 2016-12-27 12:28:07 -05:00
datapath.h openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use cases 2017-03-22 11:28:35 -07:00
dp_notify.c openvswitch: fix hangup on vxlan/gre/geneve device deletion 2015-12-03 14:29:25 -05:00
flow_netlink.c openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use cases 2017-03-22 11:28:35 -07:00
flow_netlink.h openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. 2017-02-09 22:59:34 -05:00
flow_table.c openvswitch: use percpu flow stats 2016-09-18 22:14:01 -04:00
flow_table.h
flow.c openvswitch: Add original direction conntrack tuple to sw_flow_key. 2017-02-09 22:59:34 -05:00
flow.h openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key. 2017-02-09 22:59:34 -05:00
Kconfig openvswitch: call only into reachable nf-nat code 2016-03-28 17:58:59 +02:00
Makefile
vport-geneve.c openvswitch: do not ignore netdev errors when creating tunnel vports 2016-08-10 23:13:23 -07:00
vport-gre.c openvswitch: do not ignore netdev errors when creating tunnel vports 2016-08-10 23:13:23 -07:00
vport-internal_dev.c openvswitch: Set internal device max mtu to ETH_MAX_MTU. 2017-02-15 12:40:27 -05:00
vport-internal_dev.h
vport-netdev.c openvswitch: allow L3 netdev ports 2016-11-13 00:51:02 -05:00
vport-netdev.h
vport-vxlan.c openvswitch: do not ignore netdev errors when creating tunnel vports 2016-08-10 23:13:23 -07:00
vport.c openvswitch: add processing of L3 packets 2016-11-13 00:51:02 -05:00
vport.h openvswitch: pass mac_proto to ovs_vport_send 2016-11-13 00:51:02 -05:00