From 4490108b4a5ada14c7be712260829faecc814ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:29:22 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross --- net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/openvswitch/datapath.h') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3