On Oct 8, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Alin Serdean <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> For this, the old method of finding vports based on the
> ovs port numbers is removed. Now, the lookup of a vport
> by ovs port number is done the same way as the lookup by
> hyper-v switch port id.
> 
> This is done so that the kernel is able to interact with
> the userspace correctly when using vport channels.
> The problem manifested in lib/dpif-netlink.c, at the function
> vport_add_channels.
> 
> This patch removes the field vportArray from OVS_SWITCH_CONTEXT.
> In its place, portNoHashArray is set. In the OVS_VPORT_ENTRY
> struct, we also add portNoLink. This new method will do lookup
> and insertions of vports by ovs (datapath) port numbers the same
> way it is done for hyper-v switch port ids.
> 
> This patch implicitly removes the indexes, which were previously
> used in insertions and lookups on ovs port numbers. The removal
> of the index also means that the vxlan vport can no longer be
> looked up the same way as it was done before: now we hold a pointer
> to it, vxlanVport in OVS_SWITCH_CONTEXT. For the moment, we can
> have only one vxlan vport. When more will be allowed, this field
> will turn into a list of vxlan ports.
> 
> The invalid port number value (held in OVS_DPPORT_NUMBER_INVALID)
> is now changed from 0 to MAXUINT16, the same as it is on linux.
> 
> The function OvsComputeVportNo has also been removed, since the
> computation of a vport port number can no longer be done like this.
> When vport add will be added, a new, updated OvsComputeVportNo
> function will be added.
> 
> Also, in OvsInitVportCommon, we no longer need to (and no longer can)
> initialize vport->ovsName, nor vport->ovsNameLen, because they will
> be initialized by the netlink command vport add. Since the netlink
> command vport add will generate numbers for the datapath (ovs) port
> numbers and set the port names, we cannot insert the vport into the
> hash array of port numbers here, nor into the hash array of port names.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ghinet <[email protected]>
> Co-authored-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Nithin Raju <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nithin Raju <[email protected]>

Thanks,
-- Nithin

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