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net/mlx5e: Add indirect tc offload of ovs internal port
authorAriel Levkovich <lariel@nvidia.com>
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:03:29 +0000 (10:03 +0300)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:53:30 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
commit166f431ec6beaf472bc2e116a202a127b64779e4
tree4d9908d0058d05eb25514f04d73bb0ab4dfa0472
parent100ad4e2d75837c9b42f49b3814b4b42ec9ebe46
net/mlx5e: Add indirect tc offload of ovs internal port

Register callbacks for tc blocks of ovs internal port devices.

This allows an indirect offloading rules that apply on
such devices as the filter device.

In case a rule is added to a tc block of an internal port,
the mlx5 driver will implicitly add a matching on the internal
port's unique vport metadata value to the rule's matching list.
Therefore, only packets that previously hit a rule that redirects
to an internal port and got the vport metadata overwritten to the
internal port's unique metadata, can match on such indirect rule.

Offloading of both ingress and egress tc blocks of internal ports
is supported as opposed to other devices where only ingress block
offloading is supported.

Signed-off-by: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/rep/tc.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c