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author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2013-02-15 17:29:22 -0800 |
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committer | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2013-02-22 16:29:22 -0800 |
commit | 4490108b4a5ada14c7be712260829faecc814ae5 (patch) | |
tree | 1a8aa00a6e518cd597b8ffda27f5e357c998a33b /net/openvswitch/datapath.h | |
parent | 14408dba8440ef629a3a2827bc4c7b5045889295 (diff) |
openvswitch: Allow OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA to be variable length.
Until now, the optional OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_USERDATA attribute had to be
exactly 64 bits long, if it was present. However, 64 bits is not enough
space to associate as much information with a flow as would be convenient
for some userspace features now under development. This commit generalizes
the attribute, allowing it to be any length.
This generalization is backward-compatible: if userspace only uses 64-bit
attributes, then it will not see any change in behavior.
CC: Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/openvswitch/datapath.h')
-rw-r--r-- | net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h index 031dfbf37c93..9125ad5c5aeb 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ struct ovs_skb_cb { * struct dp_upcall - metadata to include with a packet to send to userspace * @cmd: One of %OVS_PACKET_CMD_*. * @key: Becomes %OVS_PACKET_ATTR_KEY. Must be nonnull. - * @userdata: If nonnull, its u64 value is extracted and passed to userspace as + * @userdata: If nonnull, its variable-length value is passed to userspace as * %OVS_PACKET_ATTR_USERDATA. * @pid: Netlink PID to which packet should be sent. If @pid is 0 then no * packet is sent and the packet is accounted in the datapath's @n_lost |