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 --- net/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/Makefile') diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile index acdde4950de4..ad432fa4d934 100644 --- a/net/Makefile +++ b/net/Makefile @@ -69,3 +69,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DNS_RESOLVER) += dns_resolver/ obj-$(CONFIG_CEPH_LIB) += ceph/ obj-$(CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV) += batman-adv/ obj-$(CONFIG_NFC) += nfc/ +obj-$(CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH) += openvswitch/ -- cgit v1.2.3