From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:09:57 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'mlxsw-introduce-initial-xm-router-support' X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/unified/20230118.172025~8321^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75c2a8fe8e39a06b8c7979140d89dd316f10df39;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git Merge branch 'mlxsw-introduce-initial-xm-router-support' Ido Schimmel says: ==================== mlxsw: Introduce initial XM router support This patch set implements initial eXtended Mezzanine (XM) router support. The XM is an external device connected to the Spectrum-{2,3} ASICs using dedicated Ethernet ports. Its purpose is to increase the number of routes that can be offloaded to hardware. This is 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. Future patch sets will add more sophisticated cache flushing and selftests that utilize cache counters on the ASIC, which we plan to expose via devlink-metric [1]. Patch set overview: Patches #1-#2 add registers to insert/remove routes to/from the XM and to enable/disable it. Patch #3 utilizes these registers in order to implement XM-specific router low-level operations. Patches #4-#5 query from firmware the availability of the XM and the local ports that are used to connect the ASIC to the XM, so that netdevs will not be created for them. Patches #6-#8 initialize the XM by configuring its cache parameters. Patch #9-#10 implement cache management, so that LPM lookup will be correctly cached in the ASIC. Patches #11-#13 implement cache flushing, so that routes insertions/removals to/from the XM will flush the affected entries in the cache. Patch #14 configures the ASIC to allocate half of its memory for the cache, so that room will be left for other entries (e.g., FDBs, neighbours). Patch #15 starts using the XM for IPv4 route offload, when available. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200817125059.193242-1-idosch@idosch.org/ ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201214113041.2789043-1-idosch@idosch.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- 75c2a8fe8e39a06b8c7979140d89dd316f10df39