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| author | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2011-10-25 19:26:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2011-12-03 09:35:17 -0800 |
| commit | ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 (patch) | |
| tree | 9122ceff5d75ec64e327a9fad4ad2013744c2999 /Documentation/networking/00-INDEX | |
| parent | 75f2811c6460ccc59d83c66059943ce9c9f81a18 (diff) | |
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index bbce1215434a..9ad9ddeb384c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ nfc.txt - The Linux Near Field Communication (NFS) subsystem. olympic.txt - IBM PCI Pit/Pit-Phy/Olympic Token Ring driver info. +openvswitch.txt + - Open vSwitch developer documentation. operstates.txt - Overview of network interface operational states. packet_mmap.txt |