configuration changes.
</column>
- <column name="capabilities">
- Describes functionality supported by the hardware and software platform
- on which this Open vSwitch is based. Clients should not modify this
- column. See the <ref table="Capability"/> description for defined
- capability categories and the meaning of associated
- <ref table="Capability"/> records.
- </column>
-
<group title="Statistics">
<p>
The <code>statistics</code> column contains key-value pairs that
<column name="ovs_version">
The Open vSwitch version number, e.g. <code>1.1.0</code>.
- If Open vSwitch was configured with a build number, then it is
- also included, e.g. <code>1.1.0+build6579</code>.
</column>
<column name="db_version">
The virtual network to which this interface is attached.
</column>
+ <column name="external_ids" key="vm-id">
+ The VM to which this interface belongs. On XenServer, this will be the
+ same as <ref column="external_ids" key="xs-vm-uuid"/>.
+ </column>
+
<column name="external_ids" key="xs-vm-uuid">
The VM to which this interface belongs.
</column>
VLAN splinters increase kernel and userspace memory overhead, so do
not use them unless they are needed.
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ VLAN splinters do not support 802.1p priority tags. Received
+ priorities will appear to be 0, regardless of their actual values,
+ and priorities on transmitted packets will also be cleared to 0.
+ </p>
</column>
</group>
references it.</p>
<column name="type">
- <p>The type of QoS to implement. The <ref table="Open_vSwitch"
- column="capabilities"/> column in the <ref table="Open_vSwitch"/> table
- identifies the types that a switch actually supports. The currently
- defined types are listed below:</p>
+ <p>The type of QoS to implement. The currently defined types are
+ listed below:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>linux-htb</code></dt>
<dd>
supported range of queue numbers depend on <ref column="type"/>. The
queue numbers are the same as the <code>queue_id</code> used in
OpenFlow in <code>struct ofp_action_enqueue</code> and other
- structures. Queue 0 is used by OpenFlow output actions that do not
- specify a specific queue.</p>
+ structures.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Queue 0 is the ``default queue.'' It is used by OpenFlow output
+ actions when no specific queue has been set. When no configuration for
+ queue 0 is present, it is automatically configured as if a <ref
+ table="Queue"/> record with empty <ref table="Queue" column="dscp"/>
+ and <ref table="Queue" column="other_config"/> columns had been
+ specified.
+ (Before version 1.6, Open vSwitch would leave queue 0 unconfigured in
+ this case. With some queuing disciplines, this dropped all packets
+ destined for the default queue.)
+ </p>
</column>
<group title="Configuration for linux-htb and linux-hfsc">
</group>
</table>
- <table name="Capability">
- <p>Records in this table describe functionality supported by the hardware
- and software platform on which this Open vSwitch is based. Clients
- should not modify this table.</p>
-
- <p>A record in this table is meaningful only if it is referenced by the
- <ref table="Open_vSwitch" column="capabilities"/> column in the
- <ref table="Open_vSwitch"/> table. The key used to reference it, called
- the record's ``category,'' determines the meanings of the
- <ref column="details"/> column. The following general forms of
- categories are currently defined:</p>
-
- <dl>
- <dt><code>qos-<var>type</var></code></dt>
- <dd><var>type</var> is supported as the value for
- <ref column="type" table="QoS"/> in the <ref table="QoS"/> table.
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
- <column name="details">
- <p>Key-value pairs that describe capabilities. The meaning of the pairs
- depends on the category key that the <ref table="Open_vSwitch"
- column="capabilities"/> column in the <ref table="Open_vSwitch"/> table
- uses to reference this record, as described above.</p>
-
- <p>The presence of a record for category <code>qos-<var>type</var></code>
- indicates that the switch supports <var>type</var> as the value of
- the <ref table="QoS" column="type"/> column in the <ref table="QoS"/>
- table. The following key-value pairs are defined to further describe
- QoS capabilities:</p>
-
- <dl>
- <dt><code>n-queues</code></dt>
- <dd>Number of supported queues, as a positive integer. Keys in the
- <ref table="QoS" column="queues"/> column for <ref table="QoS"/>
- records whose <ref table="QoS" column="type"/> value
- equals <var>type</var> must range between 0 and this value minus one,
- inclusive.</dd>
- </dl>
- </column>
- </table>
-
</database>