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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-30 19:04:27 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-04-30 22:56:38 +0300 |
commit | 32c0f0bed5bb08625083ed7f5b661c842d63ebd1 (patch) | |
tree | 01d07f5ace5f253fb7edc940142cb3177c916b3c | |
parent | 060d9d3e1282e3ccf4bbb3cc4ea94bed3ce69310 (diff) | |
download | linux-32c0f0bed5bb08625083ed7f5b661c842d63ebd1.tar.xz |
docs: networking: convert switchdev.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header;
- use copyright symbol;
- adjust title markup;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt) | 116 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README | 2 |
3 files changed, 67 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst index e5a705024c6a..5e495804f96f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Contents: seg6-sysctl skfp strparser + switchdev .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst index 86174ce8cd13..ddc3f35775dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +=============================================== Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev) =============================================== -Copyright (c) 2014 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> -Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> + +Copyright |copy| 2014 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> + +Copyright |copy| 2014-2015 Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> The Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev) is an in-kernel driver @@ -12,53 +18,57 @@ Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the components of the switchdev model for an example setup using a data-center-class switch ASIC chip. Other setups with SR-IOV or soft switches, such as OVS, are possible. +:: - User-space tools + + User-space tools user space | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ kernel | Netlink - | - +--------------+-------------------------------+ - | Network stack | - | (Linux) | - | | - +----------------------------------------------+ - - sw1p2 sw1p4 sw1p6 - sw1p1 + sw1p3 + sw1p5 + eth1 - + | + | + | + - | | | | | | | - +--+----+----+----+----+----+---+ +-----+-----+ - | Switch driver | | mgmt | - | (this document) | | driver | - | | | | - +--------------+----------------+ +-----------+ - | + | + +--------------+-------------------------------+ + | Network stack | + | (Linux) | + | | + +----------------------------------------------+ + + sw1p2 sw1p4 sw1p6 + sw1p1 + sw1p3 + sw1p5 + eth1 + + | + | + | + + | | | | | | | + +--+----+----+----+----+----+---+ +-----+-----+ + | Switch driver | | mgmt | + | (this document) | | driver | + | | | | + +--------------+----------------+ +-----------+ + | kernel | HW bus (eg PCI) +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ hardware | - +--------------+----------------+ - | Switch device (sw1) | - | +----+ +--------+ - | | v offloaded data path | mgmt port - | | | | - +--|----|----+----+----+----+---+ - | | | | | | - + + + + + + - p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 + +--------------+----------------+ + | Switch device (sw1) | + | +----+ +--------+ + | | v offloaded data path | mgmt port + | | | | + +--|----|----+----+----+----+---+ + | | | | | | + + + + + + + + p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 - front-panel ports + front-panel ports - Fig 1. + Fig 1. Include Files ------------- -#include <linux/netdevice.h> -#include <net/switchdev.h> +:: + + #include <linux/netdevice.h> + #include <net/switchdev.h> Configuration @@ -114,10 +124,10 @@ Using port PHYS name (ndo_get_phys_port_name) for the key is particularly useful for dynamically-named ports where the device names its ports based on external configuration. For example, if a physical 40G port is split logically into 4 10G ports, resulting in 4 port netdevs, the device can give a unique -name for each port using port PHYS name. The udev rule would be: +name for each port using port PHYS name. The udev rule would be:: -SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_switch_id}=="<phys_switch_id>", \ - ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="swX$attr{phys_port_name}" + SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_switch_id}=="<phys_switch_id>", \ + ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="swX$attr{phys_port_name}" Suggested naming convention is "swXpYsZ", where X is the switch name or ID, Y is the port name or ID, and Z is the sub-port name or ID. For example, sw1p1s0 @@ -173,7 +183,7 @@ Static FDB Entries The switchdev driver should implement ndo_fdb_add, ndo_fdb_del and ndo_fdb_dump to support static FDB entries installed to the device. Static bridge FDB -entries are installed, for example, using iproute2 bridge cmd: +entries are installed, for example, using iproute2 bridge cmd:: bridge fdb add ADDR dev DEV [vlan VID] [self] @@ -185,7 +195,7 @@ XXX: what should be done if offloading this rule to hardware fails (for example, due to full capacity in hardware tables) ? Note: by default, the bridge does not filter on VLAN and only bridges untagged -traffic. To enable VLAN support, turn on VLAN filtering: +traffic. To enable VLAN support, turn on VLAN filtering:: echo 1 >/sys/class/net/<bridge>/bridge/vlan_filtering @@ -194,7 +204,7 @@ Notification of Learned/Forgotten Source MAC/VLANs The switch device will learn/forget source MAC address/VLAN on ingress packets and notify the switch driver of the mac/vlan/port tuples. The switch driver, -in turn, will notify the bridge driver using the switchdev notifier call: +in turn, will notify the bridge driver using the switchdev notifier call:: err = call_switchdev_notifiers(val, dev, info, extack); @@ -202,7 +212,7 @@ Where val is SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD when learning and SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL when forgetting, and info points to a struct switchdev_notifier_fdb_info. On SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD, the bridge driver will install the FDB entry into the bridge's FDB and mark the entry as NTF_EXT_LEARNED. The iproute2 bridge -command will label these entries "offload": +command will label these entries "offload":: $ bridge fdb 52:54:00:12:35:01 dev sw1p1 master br0 permanent @@ -219,11 +229,11 @@ command will label these entries "offload": 01:00:5e:00:00:01 dev br0 self permanent 33:33:ff:12:35:01 dev br0 self permanent -Learning on the port should be disabled on the bridge using the bridge command: +Learning on the port should be disabled on the bridge using the bridge command:: bridge link set dev DEV learning off -Learning on the device port should be enabled, as well as learning_sync: +Learning on the device port should be enabled, as well as learning_sync:: bridge link set dev DEV learning on self bridge link set dev DEV learning_sync on self @@ -314,12 +324,16 @@ forwards the packet to the matching FIB entry's nexthop(s) egress ports. 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 -FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass: +=================== =================================================== +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 +=================== =================================================== + +FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass:: struct fib_entry_notifier_info { struct fib_notifier_info info; /* must be first */ @@ -332,12 +346,12 @@ FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass: 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 route's next hop list. +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 route's next hop list. Routes offloaded to the device are labeled with "offload" in the ip route -listing: +listing:: $ ip route show default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README index f6fc07f780d1..b48dcbf7c5fb 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/README @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The DPSW can have ports connected to DPNIs or to PHYs via DPMACs. For a more detailed description of the Ethernet switch device driver model see: - Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt + Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst Creating an Ethernet Switch =========================== |