This makes it easier to install the headers, or to use them directly from
another software package with -I$(openflow)/include, without invading
the top-level include file namespace.
This is needed in the userspace switch code also. That
change is implemented in later change "Send replies to
OpenFlow requests only to the sender". Really that part
of the change should be moved into this one, but intervening
changes are intertwined enough with the same code to
make that difficult.
Until now, vconn_connect() has always completed the connection
synchronously, blocking as necessary. In the userspace
switch, we want to be able to continue forwarding packets even
if the connection to the controller drops. Thus, this change set
that makes that possible.
The approach taken is perhaps more ambitious than needed, as it
actually adds a new high-level mechanism for polling on arbitrary
file descriptors. This necessitates quite a bit of change to
each of the userspace programs that use vconns, but it also has
the effect of simplifying them. The new structure of these programs
is a lot less fragile than the old one (which tended to end up
livelocking or hanging when something wasn't quite right), so it
seems like the changes are worth it.
Ben Pfaff
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Martin Casado