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| author | Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> | 2015-12-01 18:03:18 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-12-03 12:08:46 -0500 |
| commit | 073bb189a41d7bbad509b576a690611c46c4858f (patch) | |
| tree | a5ad5964d7255979eb3304886a727d7acde4e9a4 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile | |
| parent | aad9e6e41e5e595528e316871bbc5be78a8a1eb4 (diff) | |
net/mlx5: Introducing E-Switch and l2 table
E-Switch is the software entity that represents and manages ConnectX4
inter-HCA ethernet l2 switching.
E-Switch has its own Virtual Ports, each Vport/vNIC/VF can be
connected to the device through a vport of an e-switch.
Each e-switch is managed by one vNIC identified by
HCA_CAP.vport_group_manager (usually it is the PF/vport[0]),
and its main responsibility is to forward each packet to the
right vport.
e-Switch needs to manage its own l2-table and FDB tables.
L2 table is a flow table that is managed by FW, it is needed for
Multi-host (Multi PF) configuration for inter HCA switching between
PFs.
FDB table is a flow table that is totally managed by e-Switch driver,
its main responsibility is to switch packets between e-Swtich internal
vports and uplink vport that belong to the same.
This patch introduces only e-Swtich l2 table management, FDB managemnt
will come later when ethernet SRIOV/VFs will be enabled.
preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile index 4d5103911527..a0755919ccaf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE) += mlx5_core.o mlx5_core-y := main.o cmd.o debugfs.o fw.o eq.o uar.o pagealloc.o \ health.o mcg.o cq.o srq.o alloc.o qp.o port.o mr.o pd.o \ mad.o transobj.o vport.o sriov.o -mlx5_core-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN) += wq.o flow_table.o \ +mlx5_core-$(CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN) += wq.o flow_table.o eswitch.o \ en_main.o en_flow_table.o en_ethtool.o en_tx.o en_rx.o \ en_txrx.o |