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E-Switch is the software entity that represents and manages ConnectX4
inter-HCA ethernet l2 switching.

E-Switch has its own Virtual Ports, each Vport/vNIC/VF can be
connected to the device through a vport of an e-switch.

Each e-switch is managed by one vNIC identified by
HCA_CAP.vport_group_manager (usually it is the PF/vport[0]),
and its main responsibility is to forward each packet to the
right vport.

e-Switch needs to manage its own l2-table and FDB tables.

L2 table is a flow table that is managed by FW, it is needed for
Multi-host (Multi PF) configuration for inter HCA switching between
PFs.

FDB table is a flow table that is totally managed by e-Switch driver,
its main responsibility is to switch packets between e-Swtich internal
vports and uplink vport that belong to the same.

This patch introduces only e-Swtich l2 table management, FDB managemnt
will come later when ethernet SRIOV/VFs will be enabled.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Saeed Mahameed authored and David S. Miller committed Dec 3, 2015
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE) += mlx5_core.o
mlx5_core-y := main.o cmd.o debugfs.o fw.o eq.o uar.o pagealloc.o \
health.o mcg.o cq.o srq.o alloc.o qp.o port.o mr.o pd.o \
mad.o transobj.o vport.o sriov.o
mlx5_core-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN) += wq.o flow_table.o \
mlx5_core-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN) += wq.o flow_table.o eswitch.o \
en_main.o en_flow_table.o en_ethtool.o en_tx.o en_rx.o \
en_txrx.o
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eq.c
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#include <linux/mlx5/driver.h>
#include <linux/mlx5/cmd.h>
#include "mlx5_core.h"
#ifdef CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN
#include "eswitch.h"
#endif

enum {
MLX5_EQE_SIZE = sizeof(struct mlx5_eqe),
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break;
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN
case MLX5_EVENT_TYPE_NIC_VPORT_CHANGE:
mlx5_eswitch_vport_event(dev->priv.eswitch, eqe);
break;
#endif
default:
mlx5_core_warn(dev, "Unhandled event 0x%x on EQ 0x%x\n",
eqe->type, eq->eqn);
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if (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, pg))
async_event_mask |= (1ull << MLX5_EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_FAULT);

if (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, port_type) == MLX5_CAP_PORT_TYPE_ETH &&
MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, vport_group_manager) &&
mlx5_core_is_pf(dev))
async_event_mask |= (1ull << MLX5_EVENT_TYPE_NIC_VPORT_CHANGE);

err = mlx5_create_map_eq(dev, &table->cmd_eq, MLX5_EQ_VEC_CMD,
MLX5_NUM_CMD_EQE, 1ull << MLX5_EVENT_TYPE_CMD,
"mlx5_cmd_eq", &dev->priv.uuari.uars[0]);
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