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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)
commitfa5d38f63735170e14aa65ec15df435a84ced7c6
tree4d9908d0058d05eb25514f04d73bb0ab4dfa0472
parent987ca1dc49c98de3bed942aba9beaa654551f386
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