When the driver is loaded, we create flow steering namespace
for kernel bypass with nine priorities and another namespace
for leftovers(in order to catch packets that weren't matched).
Verbs applications will use these priorities.
we found nine as a number that balances the requirements from the
user and retains performance.
The bypass namespace is used by verbs applications that want to bypass
the kernel networking stack. The leftovers namespace is used by verbs
applications and the sniffer in order to catch packets that weren't
handled by any preceding rules.
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When user add rule to autogrouped flow table, we search
for flow group with the same match criteria, if we don't
find such group then we create new flow group with the
required match criteria and insert the rule to this group.
We divide the flow table into required_groups + 1,
in order to reserve a part of the flow table for rules
which don't match any existing group.
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Expose the new flow steering API and remove the old
one.
Few changes are required:
1. The Ethernet flow steering follows the existing implementation, but uses
the new steering API. The old flow steering implementation is removed.
2. Move the E-switch FDB management to use the new API.
3. When driver is loaded call to mlx5_init_fs which initialize
the flow steering tree structure, open namespaces for NIC receive
and for E-switch FDB.
4. Call to mlx5_cleanup_fs when the driver is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Flow steering initialization is based on static tree which
illustrates the flow steering tree when the driver is loaded. The
initialization considers the max supported flow table level of the device,
a minimum of 2 kernel flow tables(vlan and mac) are required to have
kernel flow table functionality.
The tree structures when the driver is loaded:
root_namespace(receive nic)
|
priority-0 (kernel priority)
|
namespace(kernel namespace)
|
priority-0 (flow tables priority)
In the following patches, When the EN driver will use the flow steering
API, it create two flow tables and their flow groups under
priority-0(flow tables priority).
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce new Flow Steering (FS) firmware commands,
in-order to support the new flow steering infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Maor Gottlieb