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| author | Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> | 2016-07-01 14:50:55 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-07-02 14:40:39 -0400 |
| commit | 69697b6e2086b5860bd2d216bc4c6c49d84d73ff (patch) | |
| tree | f9538d0978d30a98886a0112cd60e8b36ec9c887 /include/uapi/linux | |
| parent | 6ab36e35f11244b469cdf3c976c185363f1ce61c (diff) | |
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add support for the sriov offloads mode
Unlike the legacy mode, here, forwarding rules are not learned by the
driver per events on macs set by VFs/VMs into their vports, but rather
should be programmed by higher-level SW entities.
Saying that, still, in the offloads mode (SRIOV_OFFLOADS), two flow
groups are created by the driver for management (slow path) purposes:
The first group will be used for sending packets over e-switch vports
from the host OS where the e-switch management code runs, to be
received by VFs.
The second group will be used by a miss rule which forwards packets toward
the e-switch manager. Further logic will trap these packets such that
the receiving net-device as seen by the networking stack is the representor
of the vport that sent the packet over the e-switch data-path.
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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