From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com,
yotamg@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com,
roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com,
linville@tuxdriver.com, andy@greyhouse.net, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
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vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
ivecera@redhat.com, kaber@trash.net, john@phrozen.org
Subject: [patch net-next v3 6/6] doc: update switchdev L3 section
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:52:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474887154-6286-7-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474887154-6286-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
This is to reflect the change of FIB offload infrastructure from
switchdev objects to FIB notifier.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
---
Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
index 44235e8..2bbac05 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
@@ -314,30 +314,29 @@ the kernel, with the device doing the FIB lookup and forwarding. The device
does a longest prefix match (LPM) on FIB entries matching route prefix and
forwards the packet to the matching FIB entry's nexthop(s) egress ports.
-To program the device, the driver implements support for
-SWITCHDEV_OBJ_IPV[4|6]_FIB object using switchdev_port_obj_xxx ops.
-switchdev_port_obj_add is used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
-or modifying an existing entry on the device.
+To program the device, the driver has to register a FIB notifier handler
+using register_fib_notifier. The following events are available:
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD: used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
+ or modifying an existing entry on the device.
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL: used for removing a FIB entry
+FIB_EVENT_RULE_ADD, FIB_EVENT_RULE_DEL: used to propagate FIB rule changes
-XXX: Currently, only SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_IPV4_FIB objects are supported.
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass:
-SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_IPV4_FIB object passes:
-
- struct switchdev_obj_ipv4_fib { /* IPV4_FIB */
+ struct fib_entry_notifier_info {
+ struct fib_notifier_info info; /* must be first */
u32 dst;
int dst_len;
struct fib_info *fi;
u8 tos;
u8 type;
- u32 nlflags;
u32 tb_id;
- } ipv4_fib;
+ u32 nlflags;
+ };
to add/modify/delete IPv4 dst/dest_len prefix on table tb_id. The *fi
structure holds details on the route and route's nexthops. *dev is one of the
-port netdevs mentioned in the routes next hop list. If the output port netdevs
-referenced in the route's nexthop list don't all have the same switch ID, the
-driver is not called to add/modify/delete the FIB entry.
+port netdevs mentioned in the route's next hop list.
Routes offloaded to the device are labeled with "offload" in the ip route
listing:
@@ -355,6 +354,8 @@ listing:
12.0.0.4 via 11.0.0.9 dev sw1p2 proto zebra metric 20 offload
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.15
+The "offload" flag is set in case at least one device offloads the FIB entry.
+
XXX: add/mod/del IPv6 FIB API
Nexthop Resolution
--
2.5.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 10:52 [patch net-next v3 0/6] fib offload: switch to notifier Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 1/6] fib: introduce FIB notification infrastructure Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 2/6] fib: introduce FIB info offload flag helpers Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 3/6] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use FIB notifications instead of switchdev calls Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 11:11 ` Ido Schimmel
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 4/6] rocker: use " Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 5/6] switchdev: remove FIB offload infrastructure Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2016-09-28 8:49 ` [patch net-next v3 0/6] fib offload: switch to notifier David Miller
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