Merge branch 'mlxsw-remove-xm-support'
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:51:07 +0000 (21:51 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:51:08 +0000 (21:51 -0700)
commit68d5428931c67279a0b065e214624684b09efdf8
treed0f0437e5354028e9a59c296977e7a24bb9954d8
parent6ac6dc746d70ef9b4ac835d98ac1baf63a810c57
parent87c0a3c6766ecda4bccd04a9f904551222d37de8
Merge branch 'mlxsw-remove-xm-support'

Ido Schimmel says:

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mlxsw: Remove XM support

The XM was supposed to be an external device connected to the
Spectrum-{2,3} ASICs using dedicated Ethernet ports. Its purpose was to
increase the number of routes that can be offloaded to hardware. This was
achieved by having the ASIC act as a cache that refers cache misses to the
XM where the FIB is stored and LPM lookup is performed.

Testing was done over an emulator and dedicated setups in the lab, but
the product was discontinued before shipping to customers.

Therefore, in order to remove dead code and reduce complexity of the
code base, revert the three patchsets that added XM support.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220613132116.2021055-1-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>