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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index 82236a17b5e6..86174ce8cd13 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt @@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ device. Switch ID ^^^^^^^^^ -The switchdev driver must implement the switchdev op switchdev_port_attr_get -for SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID for each port netdev, returning the same -physical ID for each port of a switch. The ID must be unique between switches -on the same system. The ID does not need to be unique between switches on -different systems. +The switchdev driver must implement the net_device operation +ndo_get_port_parent_id for each port netdev, returning the same physical ID for +each port of a switch. The ID must be unique between switches on the same +system. The ID does not need to be unique between switches on different +systems. The switch ID is used to locate ports on a switch and to know if aggregated ports belong to the same switch. @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ The switch device will learn/forget source MAC address/VLAN on ingress packets and notify the switch driver of the mac/vlan/port tuples. The switch driver, in turn, will notify the bridge driver using the switchdev notifier call: - err = call_switchdev_notifiers(val, dev, info); + err = call_switchdev_notifiers(val, dev, info, extack); Where val is SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD when learning and SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL when forgetting, and info points to a struct switchdev_notifier_fdb_info. On @@ -232,10 +232,8 @@ Learning_sync attribute enables syncing of the learned/forgotten FDB entry to the bridge's FDB. It's possible, but not optimal, to enable learning on the device port and on the bridge port, and disable learning_sync. -To support learning and learning_sync port attributes, the driver implements -switchdev op switchdev_port_attr_get/set for -SWITCHDEV_ATTR_PORT_ID_BRIDGE_FLAGS. The driver should initialize the attributes -to the hardware defaults. +To support learning, the driver implements switchdev op +switchdev_port_attr_set for SWITCHDEV_ATTR_PORT_ID_{PRE}_BRIDGE_FLAGS. FDB Ageing ^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -373,22 +371,3 @@ The driver can monitor for updates to arp_tbl using the netevent notifier NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE. The device can be programmed with resolved nexthops for the routes as arp_tbl updates. The driver implements ndo_neigh_destroy to know when arp_tbl neighbor entries are purged from the port. - -Transaction item queue -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -For switchdev ops attr_set and obj_add, there is a 2 phase transaction model -used. First phase is to "prepare" anything needed, including various checks, -memory allocation, etc. The goal is to handle the stuff that is not unlikely -to fail here. The second phase is to "commit" the actual changes. - -Switchdev provides an infrastructure for sharing items (for example memory -allocations) between the two phases. - -The object created by a driver in "prepare" phase and it is queued up by: -switchdev_trans_item_enqueue() -During the "commit" phase, the driver gets the object by: -switchdev_trans_item_dequeue() - -If a transaction is aborted during "prepare" phase, switchdev code will handle -cleanup of the queued-up objects. |