[ovs-dev] [PATCH v9] Extend OVS IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers

Wenyu Zhang wenyuz at vmware.com
Fri Aug 15 07:51:40 UTC 2014


I am working on it, will send the updated patch later.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:pshelar at nicira.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 2:59 PM
To: Ben Pfaff
Cc: Wenyu Zhang; Romain Lenglet; Jesse Gross; dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] Extend OVS IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:57:28PM -0700, Wenyu Zhang wrote:
>> Extend IPFIX exporter to export tunnel headers when both input and 
>> output of the port.
>> Add three other_config options in IPFIX table: enable-input-sampling, 
>> enable-output-sampling and enable-tunnel-sampling, to control whether 
>> sampling tunnel info, on which direction (input or output).
>> Insert sampling action before output action and the output tunnel 
>> port is sent to datapath in the sampling action.
>> Make datapath collect output tunnel info and send it back to userpace 
>> in upcall message with a new additional optional attribute.
>> Add a tunnel ports map to make the tunnel port lookup faster in 
>> sampling upcalls in IPFIX exporter. Make the IPFIX exporter generate 
>> IPFIX template sets with enterprise elements for the tunnel info, 
>> save the tunnel info in IPFIX cache entries, and send IPFIX DATA with tunnel info.
>> Add flowDirection element in IPFIX templates.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wenyu Zhang <wenyuz at vmware.com>
>> Acked-by: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet at vmware.com>
>
> For the userspace parts:
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

This patch does not apply on master anymore, Can you rebase the patch.
Thanks,
Pravin.


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