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net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
authorJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:26:31 +0000 (19:26 -0700)
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:35:17 +0000 (09:35 -0800)
commitccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
tree9122ceff5d75ec64e327a9fad4ad2013744c2999
parent75f2811c6460ccc59d83c66059943ce9c9f81a18
net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments.  In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.

The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding.  It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.

See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
20 files changed:
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
MAINTAINERS
include/linux/openvswitch.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/Kconfig
net/Makefile
net/openvswitch/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/actions.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/datapath.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/datapath.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/dp_notify.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/flow.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/flow.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport-internal_dev.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.h [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/openvswitch/vport.h [new file with mode: 0644]