docs: networking: convert openvswitch.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- adjust title markup;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index c4e8a43..b7f5584 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
netif-msg
nf_conntrack-sysctl
nf_flowtable
+ openvswitch
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
similarity index 95%
rename from Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt
rename to Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
index b3b9ac6..1a8353d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=============================================
Open vSwitch datapath developer documentation
=============================================
@@ -80,13 +83,13 @@
flow key attributes. For informal explanatory purposes here, we write
them as comma-separated strings, with parentheses indicating arguments
and nesting. For example, the following could represent a flow key
-corresponding to a TCP packet that arrived on vport 1:
+corresponding to a TCP packet that arrived on vport 1::
in_port(1), eth(src=e0:91:f5:21:d0:b2, dst=00:02:e3:0f:80:a4),
eth_type(0x0800), ipv4(src=172.16.0.20, dst=172.18.0.52, proto=17, tos=0,
frag=no), tcp(src=49163, dst=80)
-Often we ellipsize arguments not important to the discussion, e.g.:
+Often we ellipsize arguments not important to the discussion, e.g.::
in_port(1), eth(...), eth_type(0x0800), ipv4(...), tcp(...)
@@ -151,20 +154,20 @@
compatibility for applications that follow the rules listed under
"Flow key compatibility" above.
-The basic rule is obvious:
+The basic rule is obvious::
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ==================================================================
New network protocol support must only supplement existing flow
key attributes. It must not change the meaning of already defined
flow key attributes.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ==================================================================
This rule does have less-obvious consequences so it is worth working
through a few examples. Suppose, for example, that the kernel module
did not already implement VLAN parsing. Instead, it just interpreted
the 802.1Q TPID (0x8100) as the Ethertype then stopped parsing the
packet. The flow key for any packet with an 802.1Q header would look
-essentially like this, ignoring metadata:
+essentially like this, ignoring metadata::
eth(...), eth_type(0x8100)
@@ -172,7 +175,7 @@
key attribute to contain the VLAN tag, then continue to decode the
encapsulated headers beyond the VLAN tag using the existing field
definitions. With this change, a TCP packet in VLAN 10 would have a
-flow key much like this:
+flow key much like this::
eth(...), vlan(vid=10, pcp=0), eth_type(0x0800), ip(proto=6, ...), tcp(...)
@@ -187,7 +190,7 @@
The solution is to use a set of nested attributes. This is, for
example, why 802.1Q support uses nested attributes. A TCP packet in
-VLAN 10 is actually expressed as:
+VLAN 10 is actually expressed as::
eth(...), eth_type(0x8100), vlan(vid=10, pcp=0), encap(eth_type(0x0800),
ip(proto=6, ...), tcp(...)))
@@ -215,14 +218,14 @@
indicates protocol 6 for TCP, but which is truncated just after the IP
header, so that the TCP header is missing. The flow key for this
packet would include a tcp attribute with all-zero src and dst, like
-this:
+this::
eth(...), eth_type(0x0800), ip(proto=6, ...), tcp(src=0, dst=0)
As another example, consider a packet with an Ethernet type of 0x8100,
indicating that a VLAN TCI should follow, but which is truncated just
after the Ethernet type. The flow key for this packet would include
-an all-zero-bits vlan and an empty encap attribute, like this:
+an all-zero-bits vlan and an empty encap attribute, like this::
eth(...), eth_type(0x8100), vlan(0), encap()
