ofproto: Avoid user->kernel->user round-trip for many controller actions.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / lib / dpif-provider.h

diff --git a/lib/dpif-provider.h b/lib/dpif-provider.h
index fddc8ea..1106db8 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/dpif-provider.h
+++ b/lib/dpif-provider.h
@@ -18,10 +18,14 @@
 #define DPIF_PROVIDER_H 1
 
 /* Provider interface to dpifs, which provide an interface to an Open vSwitch
- * datapath. */
+ * datapath.  A datapath is a collection of physical or virtual ports that are
+ * exposed over OpenFlow as a single switch.  Datapaths and the collections of
+ * ports that they contain may be fixed or dynamic. */
 
 #include <assert.h>
+#include "openflow/openflow.h"
 #include "dpif.h"
+#include "util.h"
 
 #ifdef  __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
@@ -298,10 +302,18 @@ struct dpif_class {
      * packet. */
     int (*set_sflow_probability)(struct dpif *dpif, uint32_t probability);
 
+    /* Translates OpenFlow queue ID 'queue_id' (in host byte order) into a
+     * priority value for use in the ODPAT_SET_PRIORITY action in
+     * '*priority'. */
+    int (*queue_to_priority)(const struct dpif *dpif, uint32_t queue_id,
+                             uint32_t *priority);
+
     /* Attempts to receive a message from 'dpif'.  If successful, stores the
      * message into '*packetp'.  The message, if one is received, must begin
-     * with 'struct odp_msg' as a header.  Only messages of the types selected
-     * with the set_listen_mask member function should be received.
+     * with 'struct odp_msg' as a header, and must have at least
+     * DPIF_RECV_MSG_PADDING bytes of headroom (allocated using
+     * e.g. ofpbuf_reserve()).  Only messages of the types selected with the
+     * set_listen_mask member function should be received.
      *
      * This function must not block.  If no message is ready to be received
      * when it is called, it should return EAGAIN without blocking. */