linux/net
Vladimir Oltean 123abc06e7 net: dsa: add support for bridge TX forwarding offload
For a DSA switch, to offload the forwarding process of a bridge device
means to send the packets coming from the software bridge as data plane
packets. This is contrary to everything that DSA has done so far,
because the current taggers only know to send control packets (ones that
target a specific destination port), whereas data plane packets are
supposed to be forwarded according to the FDB lookup, much like packets
ingressing on any regular ingress port. If the FDB lookup process
returns multiple destination ports (flooding, multicast), then
replication is also handled by the switch hardware - the bridge only
sends a single packet and avoids the skb_clone().

DSA keeps for each bridge port a zero-based index (the number of the
bridge). Multiple ports performing TX forwarding offload to the same
bridge have the same dp->bridge_num value, and ports not offloading the
TX data plane of a bridge have dp->bridge_num = -1.

The tagger can check if the packet that is being transmitted on has
skb->offload_fwd_mark = true or not. If it does, it can be sure that the
packet belongs to the data plane of a bridge, further information about
which can be obtained based on dp->bridge_dev and dp->bridge_num.
It can then compose a DSA tag for injecting a data plane packet into
that bridge number.

For the switch driver side, we offer two new dsa_switch_ops methods,
called .port_bridge_fwd_offload_{add,del}, which are modeled after
.port_bridge_{join,leave}.
These methods are provided in case the driver needs to configure the
hardware to treat packets coming from that bridge software interface as
data plane packets. The switchdev <-> bridge interaction happens during
the netdev_master_upper_dev_link() call, so to switch drivers, the
effect is that the .port_bridge_fwd_offload_add() method is called
immediately after .port_bridge_join().

If the bridge number exceeds the number of bridges for which the switch
driver can offload the TX data plane (and this includes the case where
the driver can offload none), DSA falls back to simply returning
tx_fwd_offload = false in the switchdev_bridge_port_offload() call.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-07-23 16:32:37 +01:00
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6lowpan 6lowpan: Fix some typos in nhc_udp.c 2021-03-24 17:52:11 -07:00
9p 9p/trans_virtio: Fix spelling mistakes 2021-06-02 14:01:55 -07:00
802 net/802/garp: fix memleak in garp_request_join() 2021-07-01 11:21:57 -07:00
8021q memcg: enable accounting for VLAN group array 2021-07-20 06:00:38 -07:00
appletalk net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl() 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
atm atm: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code in resources.c 2021-06-10 14:08:09 -07:00
ax25 net/ax25: Delete obsolete TODO file 2021-03-30 16:54:50 -07:00
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-18 19:47:02 -07:00
bluetooth TTY / Serial patches for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 14:08:24 -07:00
bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-07-23 16:13:06 +01:00
bpfilter bpfilter: Specify the log level for the kmsg message 2021-06-25 13:13:50 +02:00
bridge net: bridge: switchdev: allow the TX data plane forwarding to be offloaded 2021-07-23 16:32:37 +01:00
caif net: fix uninit-value in caif_seqpkt_sendmsg 2021-07-15 11:08:33 -07:00
can Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
ceph Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
core Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-07-23 16:13:06 +01:00
dcb net: dcb: Return the correct errno code 2021-06-01 17:01:33 -07:00
dccp memcg: enable accounting for inet_bin_bucket cache 2021-07-20 06:00:38 -07:00
decnet net: decnet: Fix sleeping inside in af_decnet 2021-07-16 14:06:16 -07:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: add support for bridge TX forwarding offload 2021-07-23 16:32:37 +01:00
ethernet of: net: pass the dst buffer to of_get_mac_address() 2021-04-13 14:35:02 -07:00
ethtool ethtool: improve compat ioctl handling 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
hsr net: hsr: don't check sequence number if tag removal is offloaded 2021-06-16 12:13:01 -07:00
ieee802154 net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl() 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
ife
ipv4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-07-23 16:13:06 +01:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-07-23 16:13:06 +01:00
iucv s390: iucv: Avoid field over-reading memcpy() 2021-07-01 15:54:01 -07:00
kcm net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
key net: Remove unnecessary variables 2021-05-26 07:03:39 +02:00
l2tp l2tp: Fix spelling mistakes 2021-06-07 14:08:30 -07:00
l3mdev l3mdev: Correct function names in the kerneldoc comments 2021-03-28 17:56:55 -07:00
lapb net: lapb: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code in lapb_iface.c 2021-06-08 16:31:25 -07:00
llc llc2: Remove redundant assignment to rc 2021-04-27 14:16:14 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: Switch to a virtual time-based airtime scheduler 2021-06-23 18:12:00 +02:00
mac802154 net: mac802154: Fix general protection fault 2021-04-06 22:42:16 +02:00
mpls mpls: Remove redundant assignment to err 2021-04-27 14:17:00 -07:00
mptcp net: Use nlmsg_unicast() instead of netlink_unicast() 2021-07-13 09:28:29 -07:00
ncsi net/ncsi: add dummy response handler for Intel boards 2021-07-08 14:16:39 -07:00
netfilter net: ipv6: introduce ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward 2021-07-21 08:22:02 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix memory leak in netlbl_mgmt_add_common 2021-06-15 11:19:04 -07:00
netlink netlink: Deal with ESRCH error in nlmsg_notify() 2021-07-20 11:45:09 +02:00
netrom netrom: Decrease sock refcount when sock timers expire 2021-07-18 09:48:59 -07:00
nfc TTY / Serial patches for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 14:08:24 -07:00
nsh
openvswitch openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch 2021-07-16 11:06:33 -07:00
packet Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
phonet
psample
qrtr net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl() 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
rds Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
rfkill Another set of updates, all over the map: 2021-04-20 16:44:04 -07:00
rose
rxrpc Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-07-23 16:13:06 +01:00
sctp sctp: do not update transport pathmtu if SPP_PMTUD_ENABLE is not set 2021-07-21 14:17:58 -07:00
smc net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
strparser net: sock: introduce sk_error_report 2021-06-29 11:28:21 -07:00
sunrpc NFS client updates for Linux 5.14 2021-07-09 09:43:57 -07:00
switchdev net: switchdev: fix FDB entries towards foreign ports not getting propagated to us 2021-07-22 00:45:40 -07:00
tipc tipc: keep the skb in rcv queue until the whole data is read 2021-07-16 17:28:09 -07:00
tls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
unix Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-07-15 22:40:10 -07:00
vmw_vsock Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
wireless cfg80211: Support hidden AP discovery over 6GHz band 2021-06-23 13:05:09 +02:00
x25 net: x25: Use list_for_each_entry() to simplify code in x25_route.c 2021-06-10 14:08:09 -07:00
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-06-29 15:45:27 -07:00
xfrm Networking changes for 5.14. 2021-06-30 15:51:09 -07:00
compat.c net: Return the correct errno code 2021-06-03 15:13:56 -07:00
devres.c net: devres: Correct a grammatical error 2021-06-11 12:55:28 -07:00
Kconfig bpf, kconfig: Add consolidated menu entry for bpf with core options 2021-05-11 13:56:16 -07:00
Makefile
socket.c net: socket: rework compat_ifreq_ioctl() 2021-07-23 14:20:25 +01:00
sysctl_net.c net: Ensure net namespace isolation of sysctls 2021-04-12 13:27:11 -07:00