From ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Gross Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:26:31 -0700 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/networking/00-INDEX | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking/00-INDEX') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index bbce1215434..9ad9ddeb384 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2