[RFC,net-next,0/6] Allow excluding sw flow key from upcalls

Message

Aaron Conole Nov. 22, 2022, 2:03 p.m. UTC

Userspace applications can choose to completely ignore the kernel provided
flow key and instead regenerate a fresh key for processing in userspace.
Currently, userspace ovs-vswitchd does this in some instances (for example,
MISS upcall command).  This means that kernel spends time to copy and send
the flow key into userspace without any benefit to the system.

Introduce a way for userspace to tell kernel not to send the flow key.
This lets userspace and kernel space save time and memory pressure.

This patch set is quite a bit larger because it introduces the ability to
decode a sw flow key into a compatible datapath-string.  We use this as a
method of implementing a test to show that the feature is working by
decoding and dumping the flow (to make sure we capture the correct packet).

Aaron Conole (6):
  openvswitch: exclude kernel flow key from upcalls
  selftests: openvswitch: add interface support
  selftests: openvswitch: add flow dump support
  selftests: openvswitch: adjust datapath NL message
  selftests: openvswitch: add upcall support
  selftests: openvswitch: add exclude support for packet commands

 include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h              |    6 +
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c                    |   26 +-
 net/openvswitch/datapath.h                    |    2 +
 .../selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh  |  101 +-
 .../selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py    | 1069 ++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 1183 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)