openvswitch: Userspace tunneling.

Following patch adds support for userspace tunneling. Tunneling
needs three more component first is routing table which is configured by
caching kernel routes and second is ARP cache which build automatically
by snooping arp. And third is tunnel protocol table which list all
listening protocols which is populated by vswitchd as tunnel ports
are added. GRE and VXLAN protocol support is added in this patch.

Tunneling works as follows:
On packet receive vswitchd check if this packet is targeted to tunnel
port. If it is then vswitchd inserts tunnel pop action which pops
header and sends packet to tunnel port.
On packet xmit rather than generating Set tunnel action it generate
tunnel push action which has tunnel header data. datapath can use
tunnel-push action data to generate header for each packet and
forward this packet to output port. Since tunnel-push action
contains most of packet header vswitchd needs to lookup routing
table and arp table to build this action.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5ba8f4d3f..40a0db0f5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Post-v2.3.0
    - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
      containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
      with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
+   - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN and GRE are supported protocols.
+     This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
 
 
 v2.3.0 - 14 Aug 2014