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2017-05-01switchdev: documentation: fix whitespace issuesLiam Beguin1-35/+35
Figure 1 is full of whitespaces; fix it Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <lbeguin@tycoint.com> Signed-off-by: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux@tycoint.com> Acked-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-28doc: update switchdev L3 sectionJiri Pirko1-13/+14
This is to reflect the change of FIB offload infrastructure from switchdev objects to FIB notifier. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-26bridge: switchdev: Add forward mark support for stacked devicesIdo Schimmel1-9/+4
switchdev_port_fwd_mark_set() is used to set the 'offload_fwd_mark' of port netdevs so that packets being flooded by the device won't be flooded twice. It works by assigning a unique identifier (the ifindex of the first bridge port) to bridge ports sharing the same parent ID. This prevents packets from being flooded twice by the same switch, but will flood packets through bridge ports belonging to a different switch. This method is problematic when stacked devices are taken into account, such as VLANs. In such cases, a physical port netdev can have upper devices being members in two different bridges, thus requiring two different 'offload_fwd_mark's to be configured on the port netdev, which is impossible. The main problem is that packet and netdev marking is performed at the physical netdev level, whereas flooding occurs between bridge ports, which are not necessarily port netdevs. Instead, packet and netdev marking should really be done in the bridge driver with the switch driver only telling it which packets it already forwarded. The bridge driver will mark such packets using the mark assigned to the ingress bridge port and will prevent the packet from being forwarded through any bridge port sharing the same mark (i.e. having the same parent ID). Remove the current switchdev 'offload_fwd_mark' implementation and instead implement the proposed method. In addition, make rocker - the sole user of the mark - use the proposed method. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-05switchdev: Use switch ID in suggested udev ruleIdo Schimmel1-14/+14
Since there can be multiple switch ASICs on the same system we should use the switch ID in order to differentiate between them and set the switch name (e.g. swX) accordingly. Also, replace the order of the "Switch ID" and "Port Netdev Naming" sections following the above change. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-03-24switchdev: fix typo in comments/docNicolas Dichtel1-1/+1
Two minor typo. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-11switchdev: Adding IGMP snooping documentationElad Raz1-2/+6
Signed-off-by: Elad Raz <eladr@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-30switchdev: Make flood to CPU optionalIdo Schimmel1-2/+2
In certain use cases it is not always desirable for the switch device to flood traffic to CPU port. Instead, only certain packet types (e.g. STP, LACP) should be trapped to it. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-30switchdev: Add support for flood controlIdo Schimmel1-0/+3
Allow devices supporting this feature to control the flooding of unknown unicast traffic, by making switchdev infrastructure propagate this setting to the switch driver. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-03switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_ATTR_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_*Jiri Pirko1-4/+5
To be aligned with obj. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-03switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_OBJ_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_*Jiri Pirko1-3/+3
Suggested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-25switchdev: introduce transaction item queue for attr_set and obj_addJiri Pirko1-0/+19
Now, the memory allocation in prepare/commit state is done separatelly in each driver (rocker). Introduce the similar mechanism in generic switchdev code, in form of queue. That can be used not only for memory allocations, but also for different items. Abort item destruction is handled as well. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-24switchdev: update documentation on FDB ageing_timeScott Feldman1-12/+12
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-14rocker: hook ndo_neigh_destroy to cleanup neigh refs in driverScott Feldman1-1/+2
Rocker driver tracks arp_tbl neighs to resolve IPv4 route nexthops. The driver uses NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE for neigh adds and updates, but there is no event when the neigh is removed from the device (such as when the device goes admin down). This patches hooks ndo_neigh_destroy so the driver can know when a neigh is removed from the device. In response, the driver will purge the neigh entry from its internal tbl. I didn't find an in-tree users of ndo_neigh_destroy, so I'm not sure if this ndo is vestigial or if there are out-of-tree users. In any case, it does what I need here. An alternative design would be to generate NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE event when neigh is being destroyed, setting state to NUD_NONE so driver knows neigh entry is dead. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-21switchdev: update documentation for offload_fwd_markScott Feldman1-2/+12
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-16bridge: del external_learned fdbs from device on flush or ageoutScott Feldman1-9/+2
We need to delete from offload the device externally learnded fdbs when any one of these events happen: 1) Bridge ages out fdb. (When bridge is doing ageing vs. device doing ageing. If device is doing ageing, it would send SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL directly). 2) STP state change flushes fdbs on port. 3) User uses sysfs interface to flush fdbs from bridge or bridge port: echo 1 >/sys/class/net/BR_DEV/bridge/flush echo 1 >/sys/class/net/BR_PORT/brport/flush 4) Offload driver send event SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL to delete fdb entry. For rocker, we can now get called to delete fdb entry in wait and nowait contexts, so set NOWAIT flag when deleting fdb entry. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-04switchdev: documentation: use switchdev_port_obj_xxx for IPv4 FIB ↵Scott Feldman1-24/+29
add/modify/delete ops Clarify in documentation and code that IPV4 FIB add operation is used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device and for modifying an existing FIB entry on the device. Also, remove left-over references to ipv4_fib ops and replace with details on SWITCHDEV_PORT_IPV4_FIB object. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-04switchdev: documentation: for static FDB ops, use switchdev_port_fdb_xxx opsScott Feldman1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-04switchdev: documentation: fix grammer errorScott Feldman1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-06-04switchdev: documentation: fix longer-than-80-char linesScott Feldman1-18/+18
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13switchdev: apply review comments on documentationScott Feldman1-2/+5
There were a few review comments on the switchdev.txt documentation that didn't get included with the Spring Cleanup series, so include them now. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-13switchdev: bring documentation up-to-dateScott Feldman1-59/+355
Much need updated of switchdev documentation to cover what's been implmented to-date. There are some XXX comments in the text for unimplemented or broken items. I'd like to keep these in there (poor-man's TODO list) and update the document once each issue is resolved. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-03net: introduce generic switch devices supportJiri Pirko1-0/+59
The goal of this is to provide a possibility to support various switch chips. Drivers should implement relevant ndos to do so. Now there is only one ndo defined: - for getting physical switch id is in place. Note that user can use random port netdevice to access the switch. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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