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| author | Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> | 2010-04-13 21:24:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> | 2010-04-15 03:50:28 -0700 |
| commit | 8aed4223e0933c0602c1e624b07094d7f7afb23d (patch) | |
| tree | 8b8588caac0397ee7ae7fdf9e850f1ea9900c7ff /lib/netdev.c | |
| parent | 4dcf0d73c247c538807dbb642437aaf33589822b (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-8aed4223e0933c0602c1e624b07094d7f7afb23d.tar.gz | |
netdev: Add support for "patch" type
This commit introduces a new netdev type called "patch". A patch is a
pair of interfaces, in which frames sent through one of the devices
pop out of the other. This is useful for linking together datapaths.
A patch's only argument on creation is "peer", which specifies the other
side of the patch. A patch must be created in pairs, so a second netdev
must be created with the "name" and "peer" values reversed.
The current implementation is built using veth devices. Further, it's
limited to the veth devices which support configuration through sysfs.
This limits the ability to use a "patch" on 2.6.18 kernels using the
veth device we include (read: flavors of XenServer 5.5). In the not too
distant future, the implementation will be modified to use the new
kernel port abstraction introduced by Jesse Gross's forthcoming GRE
work. At that point, patch devices will work on any Linux platform
supported by OVS.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/netdev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/netdev.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/netdev.c b/lib/netdev.c index 99b5d243a..af2382d3a 100644 --- a/lib/netdev.c +++ b/lib/netdev.c @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static const struct netdev_class *base_netdev_classes[] = { &netdev_linux_class, &netdev_tap_class, &netdev_gre_class, + &netdev_patch_class, }; static struct shash netdev_classes = SHASH_INITIALIZER(&netdev_classes); |