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2012-05-02Global replace of Nicira Networks.Raju Subramanian
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc. Feature #10593 Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-04-18mac-learning: Speed up mac_table_hash().Ben Pfaff
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-02-01vswitchd: Make the MAC entry aging time configurable.Ben Pfaff
NICS-11. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
2012-01-25mac-learning: Only revalidate relevant flows upon flush.Ethan Jackson
Most callers of mac_learning_flush() need to revalidate all flows anyway, but this update forces new callers of mac_learning_flush() to think about whether or not they need to explicitly handle revalidation. Also, it's theoretically more efficient when there are lots of flows but the learning table is empty, (e.g. bridges that don't use the NORMAL action). Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
2011-07-26mac-learning: Fix inverted logic in is_learning_vlan().Ben Pfaff
When a bit is set in flood_vlans, that VLAN must be flooded, but the logic here was reversed in the case where there were any flooded VLANs at all. Thus, if a single VLAN was configured to be flooded, all VLANs except that one were actually flooded. The common case where no VLANs were to be flooded was handled correctly. Reported-by: David Tsai <dtsai@nicira.com>
2011-07-22mac-learning: Simplify memory management.Ethan Jackson
The mac-learning implementation used a free list to keep track of statically allocated table entries. This made the code slightly more difficult to understand than the more straightforward heap based strategy implemented by this patch.
2011-07-22mac-learning: Use random secret in hash function.Ethan Jackson
The mac-learning 'secret' parameter is intended to prevent an attacker from turning the mac learning table into a linked list by using a known hash function to choose perfectly bad mac entries. However, this parameter was not taken into account in most cases. Found by inspection.
2011-07-22mac-learning: Convert to hmap.Ethan Jackson
The mac-learning code predates the hmap data structure in OVS. For this reason, it rolled it's own hmap-like bucket concept. This patch converts it to use an hmap which makes the code slightly simpler and easier to understand.
2011-07-21mac-learning: Fix serious performance bug in the learning table.Ethan Jackson
Due to a typo, the mac-learning hash table had dissolved into a linked list. This caused a significant reduction in performance.
2011-04-25mac-learning: Avoid unnecessary call to free().Ben Pfaff
2011-04-25mac-learning: Change mac_learning_set_flood_vlans() to not take ownership.Ben Pfaff
These new semantics are less efficient in the case where the flood_vlans actually changed, but that should be very rare. There are no advantages to this change on its own, but upcoming commits will add multiple layers between the code supplying the flood_vlans and actually calling mac_learning_set_flood_vlans(). Consistency in this multilayered interface seems valuable, and the rest of it does not transfer ownership from the caller to the callee.
2011-04-25vlan-bitmap: New data structure.Ben Pfaff
2011-03-22mac-learning: Expose function for expiring a single MAC learning entry.Ben Pfaff
The bridge will soon use this for expiring only the MAC learning entries associated with a given port at port deletion time.
2011-03-22mac-learning: Refactor to increase generality.Ben Pfaff
In an upcoming commit I want to store a pointer in MAC learning entries in the bridge, instead of an integer port number. The MAC learning library has other clients, and the others do not gracefully fit this new model, so in fact the data will have to become a union. However, this does not fit well with the current mac_learning API, since mac_learning_learn() currently initializes and compares the data. It seems better to break up the API so that only the client has to know the data's format and how to initialize it or compare it. This commit makes this possible. This commit doesn't change the type of the data stored in a MAC learning entry yet. As a side effect this commit has the benefit that clients that don't need gratuitous ARP locking don't have to specify any policy for it at all.
2010-11-30coverage: Make the coverage counters catalog program-specific.Ben Pfaff
Until now, the collection of coverage counters supported by a given OVS program was not specific to that program. That means that, for example, even though ovs-dpctl does not have anything to do with mac_learning, it still has a coverage counter for it. This is confusing, at best. This commit fixes the problem on some systems, in particular on ones that use GCC and the GNU linker. It uses the feature of the GNU linker described in its manual as: If an orphaned section's name is representable as a C identifier then the linker will automatically see PROVIDE two symbols: __start_SECNAME and __end_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the name of the section. These indicate the start address and end address of the orphaned section respectively. Systems that don't support these features retain the earlier behavior. This commit also fixes the annoyance that files that include coverage counters must be listed on COVERAGE_FILES in lib/automake.mk. This commit also fixes the annoyance that modifying any source file that includes a coverage counter caused all programs that link against libopenvswitch.a to relink, even programs that the source file was not linked into. For example, modifying ofproto/ofproto.c (which includes coverage counters) caused tests/test-aes128 to relink, even though test-aes128 does not link again ofproto.o.
2010-10-29vlog: Make client supply semicolon for VLOG_DEFINE_THIS_MODULE.Ben Pfaff
It's kind of odd for VLOG_DEFINE_THIS_MODULE to supply its own semicolon, so this commit switches to the more common form.
2010-10-01Switch many macros from using CONTAINER_OF to using OBJECT_CONTAINING.Ben Pfaff
These macros require one fewer argument by switching, which makes code that uses them shorter and more readable.
2010-07-21vlog: Introduce VLOG_DEFINE_THIS_MODULE for declaring vlog module in use.Ben Pfaff
Adding a macro to define the vlog module in use adds a level of indirection, which makes it easier to change how the vlog module must be defined. A followup commit needs to do that, so getting these widespread changes out of the way first should make that commit easier to review.
2010-06-03bridge: Filter some gratuitous ARPs on bond slaves.Jesse Gross
Normally we filter out packets received on a bond if we have learned the source MAC as belonging to another port to avoid packets sent on one slave and reflected back on another. The exception to this is gratuitous ARPs because they indicate that the host has moved to another port. However, this can result in an additional problem on the switch that the host moved to if the gratuitous ARP is reflected back on a bond slave. In this case, we incorrectly relearn the slave as the source of the MAC address. To solve this, we lock the learning entry for 5 seconds after receiving a gratuitous ARP against further updates caused by gratuitous ARPs on bond slaves. Bug #2516 Reported-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2010-05-26poll-loop: New function poll_timer_wait_until().Ben Pfaff
Many of poll_timer_wait()'s callers actually want to wait until a specific time, so it's convenient for them to offer a function that does this.
2010-01-19mac-learning: Rename "non-learning VLANs" to "flood VLANs".Ben Pfaff
Usually positive names are better than negative ones.
2009-11-10mirroring: Allow learning to be disabled on a VLAN.Jesse Gross
RSPAN does not work properly unless MAC learning for the VLAN is disabled on all switches between the origin and monitoring point. This allows learning to be disabled on a given VLAN so vSwitch can acts as an intermediate switch. Feature #2136
2009-07-16mac-learning: New function mac_entry_age().Ben Pfaff
This function will be used as part of printing the MAC learning table at user request.
2009-06-15Update primary code license to Apache 2.0.Ben Pfaff
2009-06-08mac-learning: Make data structures public.Ben Pfaff
The vswitchd bonding code needs to iterate through the table entries to be able to send out gratuitous learning packets when bond slaves go down. It might be best to create an abstract interface to the MAC learning table, but this commit does the simpler thing and exposes the data structures in the header file.
2009-07-08Import from old repository commit 61ef2b42a9c4ba8e1600f15bb0236765edc2ad45.v0.90.0Ben Pfaff