History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mpfs.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 7c9f131f 22-Apr-2021 Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>

{net,vdpa}/mlx5: Configure interface MAC into mpfs L2 table

net/mlx5: Expose MPFS configuration API

MPFS is the multi physical function switch that bridges traffic between
the physical port and any physical functions associated with it. The
driver is required to add or remove MAC entries to properly forward
incoming traffic to the correct physical function.

We export the API to control MPFS so that other drivers, such as
mlx5_vdpa are able to add MAC addresses of their network interfaces.

The MAC address of the vdpa interface must be configured into the MPFS L2
address. Failing to do so could cause, in some NIC configurations, failure
to forward packets to the vdpa network device instance.

Fix this by adding calls to update the MPFS table.

CC: <mst@redhat.com>
CC: <jasowang@redhat.com>
CC: <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 1a86b377aa21 ("vdpa/mlx5: Add VDPA driver for supported mlx5 devices")
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>


# eeb66cdb 04-Jun-2017 Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>

net/mlx5: Separate between E-Switch and MPFS

Multi-Physical Function Switch (MPFs) is required for when multi-PF
configuration is enabled to allow passing user configured unicast MAC
addresses to the requesting PF.

Before this patch eswitch.c used to manage the HW MPFS l2 table,
E-Switch always (regardless of sriov) enabled vport(0) (NIC PF) vport's
contexts update on unicast mac address list changes, to populate the PF's
MPFS L2 table accordingly.

In downstream patch we would like to allow compiling the driver without
E-Switch functionalities, for that we move MPFS l2 table logic out
of eswitch.c into its own file, and provide Kconfig flag (MLX5_MPFS) to
allow compiling out MPFS for those who don't want Multi-PF support.

NIC PF netdevice will now directly update MPFS l2 table via the new MPFS
API. VF netdevice has no access to MPFS L2 table, so E-Switch will remain
responsible of updating its MPFS l2 table on behalf of its VFs.

Due to this change we also don't require enabling vport(0) (PF vport)
unicast mac changes events anymore, for when SRIOV is not enabled.
Which means E-Switch is now activated only on SRIOV activation, and not
required otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@fb.com>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com