Apologies - I used a template and forgot to change the subject. Will send a new announcement. cheers, jamal On 17-03-11 08:48 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
The tech committee would like to announce a new accepted talk. OVS without OVS, by Joe Stringer The description is as follows: ----- The OVS kernel module provides a user-facing API that models a datapath bridge that connects multiple ports and is configured through a single flow table. This flow table allows policies to be written around a wide range of fields and provides actions to manipulate and redirect packets. A primary goal of this design is to allow flexible user-defined policies without complicating the kernel for every use-case; this has been well-aligned with recent industry interest in SDN. The most well known user of the the OVS kernel module is ovs-vswitchd, which is a fairly large userspace program that provides an OpenFlow API for programming. However, there are a number of other users and use-cases outside of ovs-vswitchd and SDN for the OVS kernel module. This paper presents the OVS kernel API, shows how it can be directly configured with simpler low-level utilities (eg, ovs-dpctl), and looks at how it compares to similar APIs such as cls_flower. Finally, this paper surveys a variety of open source projects which build upon the OVS kernel API without using the OVS userland utilities. ---- cheers, jamal
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