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mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Implement region migration according to hints
authorJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:22:54 +0000 (11:22 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 23:02:50 +0000 (15:02 -0800)
commit7671443f6150ac5914bc2c004f27a93673c3faa9
tree3c99b92e462c4c5de5ff8070bc177884ba2c75ac
parent21acda5a5b52aab4376054527c3696fb1d5e9a91
mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Implement region migration according to hints

If the hints are returned, the migration should be started. For that to
happen, there is a need to create a second physical region in TCAM with
new ERP set by passing the hints and then move chunk by chunk,
entry by entry.

During the transition, two lookups will occur. One in old region and
another in new region. The highest priority rule will be chosen.

In an unlikely case that the migration will fail and also rollback to
original region will fail the vregion will become in bad state.
Everything will work, only no future rehash will be possible. In a
follow-up work, this can be resolved by trying to resume the rollback
in delayed work and repair the vregion.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h