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David S. Miller 0ca3737526 Merge branch 'mlxsw-Improve-extensibility' 
Jiri Pirko says:

====================
mlxsw: Improve extensibility

Ido says:

Since the initial introduction of the bridge offload in commit
56ade8fe3f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add initial support for Spectrum ASIC")
the per-port struct was used to store both physical properties of the
port as well as logical bridge properties such as learning and active
VLANs in the VLAN-aware bridge.

The above resulted in a bloated struct and code that is getting
increasingly difficult to extend when stacked devices are taken into
account as well as more advanced use cases such as IGMP snooping.

Due to the incremental development nature of this driver as well as the
complexity of the underlying hardware, subsequent design decisions failed
to generalize the FID and RIF resources, which could've benefited from
a more generic design, resulting in consolidated code paths and better
extensibility with regards to future ASICs and use cases.

This patchset tries to solve both of these design problems, as they're
tightly coupled. To ease the code review, the changes are done in a
bottom-up manner, in which the port struct is the first to be patched,
then the FIDs the ports are mapped to and finally the RIFs configured on
top.

The first half of the patchset gradually moves away from the previous
design to a design that is more in sync with the underlying hardware and
which clearly separates between hardware-specific structs and logical
ones such as a bridge port.

All the bridge-specific information is removed from the port struct, as
well as the list of VLAN devices ("vPorts") configured on top of it.
Instead, a linked list of VLANs is introduced, which allows each VLAN
to hold a state, such as mapping to a particular FID and membership in
a bridge. The data structures are depicted in the following figure:

                                  mlxsw_sp_bridge_device
                                       +----------+
                                       |          |
                                  +----+          |
                                  |    |          |
                                  |    +----------+
                                  |
             mlxsw_sp_bridge_port |
                 +----------+     |
                 |          |     |
              +-->          +-----+--> ..
              |  |          |
              |  +----+-----+
              |       |
              |       v
              | mlxsw_sp_bridge_vlan
              |  +----------+
              |  | vid X    |
              |  |          +--> ..
              |  |          |
              |  +----+-----+
              |       |
              +--+----v-----+
                 | vid X    |
              +--+          +--> ..
              |  |          |
mlxsw_sp_port |  +----------+
+----------+  | mlxsw_sp_port_vlan
|          |  |
|          +--+
|          |
+----------+

This model allows us to consolidate many of the code paths relating to
VLAN-aware and VLAN-unaware bridges, as the latter is simply represented
using a bridge port with a VLAN list size of one. Another advantage of
the model is that it's easy to extend it with future per-VLAN
attributes - such as mrouter indication - by merely pushing these down
from the bridge port struct to the bridge VLAN one.

The second half of the patchset builds on top of previous work and
prepares the driver for the common FID and RIF cores, which are finally
implemented in the last two patches. These exploit the fact that despite
the different kinds of FIDs and RIFs, they do share a common object on
which the core operations can operate on.

By hiding both objects from the rest of the driver and modeling their
operations using a VFT, it'll be easier to extend the driver for future
use cases such as VXLAN.

Tested using following LNST recipes:
https://github.com/jpirko/lnst/tree/master/recipes/switchdev
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-26 15:18:50 -04:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-22 23:32:48 -04:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation net: sysfs: Document PHY device sysfs attributes 2017-05-26 14:37:41 -04:00
drivers mlxsw: spectrum_router: Implement common RIF core 2017-05-26 15:18:49 -04:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-20 16:12:30 -07:00
include bridge: Export multicast enabled state 2017-05-26 15:18:44 -04:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Power management updates for v4.12-rc3 2017-05-22 19:24:32 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net bridge: Export multicast enabled state 2017-05-26 15:18:44 -04:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-22 23:32:48 -04:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Add the mlxfw module for Mellanox firmware flash process 2017-05-25 17:46:17 -04:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc2 2017-05-21 19:30:23 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.