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mlx5 Software steering, New features and optimizations
 
 This patch series brings various SW steering features, optimizations and
 debug-ability focused improvements.
 
  1) Expose debugfs for dumping the SW steering resources
  2) Removing unused fields
  3) support for matching on new fields
  4) steering optimization for RX/TX-only rules
  5) Make Software steering the default steering mechanism when
     available, applies only to Switchdev mode FDB
 
 From Yevgeny Kliteynik and Muhammad Sammar:
 
  - Patch 1 fixes an error flow in creating matchers
  - Patch 2 fix lower case macro prefix "mlx5_" to "MLX5_"
  - Patch 3 removes unused struct member in mlx5dr_matcher
  - Patch 4 renames list field in matcher struct to list_node to reflect the
    fact that is field is for list node that is stored on another struct's lists
  - Patch 5 adds checking for valid Flex parser ID value
  - Patch 6 adds the missing reserved fields to dr_match_param and aligns it to
    the format that is defined by HW spec
  - Patch 7 adds support for dumping SW steering (SMFS) resources using debugfs
    in CSV format: domain and its tables, matchers and rules
  - Patch 8 adds support for a new destination type - UPLINK
  - Patch 9 adds WARN_ON_ONCE on refcount checks in SW steering object destructors
  - Patches 10, 11, 12 add misc5 flow table match parameters and add support for
    matching on tunnel headers 0 and 1
  - Patch 13 adds support for matching on geneve_tlv_option_0_exist field
  - Patch 14 implements performance optimization for for empty or RX/TX-only
    matchers by splitting RX and TX matchers handling: matcher connection in the
    matchers chain is split into two separate lists (RX only and TX only), which
    solves a usecase of many RX or TX only rules that create a long chain of
    RX/TX-only paths w/o the actual rules
  - Patch 15 ignores modify TTL if device doesn't support it instead of
    adding and unsupported action
  - Patch 16 sets SMFS as a default steering mode
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Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2021-12-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

Saeed Mahameed says:

====================
mlx5 Software steering, New features and optimizations

This patch series brings various SW steering features, optimizations and
debug-ability focused improvements.

 1) Expose debugfs for dumping the SW steering resources
 2) Removing unused fields
 3) support for matching on new fields
 4) steering optimization for RX/TX-only rules
 5) Make Software steering the default steering mechanism when
    available, applies only to Switchdev mode FDB

From Yevgeny Kliteynik and Muhammad Sammar:

 - Patch 1 fixes an error flow in creating matchers
 - Patch 2 fix lower case macro prefix "mlx5_" to "MLX5_"
 - Patch 3 removes unused struct member in mlx5dr_matcher
 - Patch 4 renames list field in matcher struct to list_node to reflect the
   fact that is field is for list node that is stored on another struct's lists
 - Patch 5 adds checking for valid Flex parser ID value
 - Patch 6 adds the missing reserved fields to dr_match_param and aligns it to
   the format that is defined by HW spec
 - Patch 7 adds support for dumping SW steering (SMFS) resources using debugfs
   in CSV format: domain and its tables, matchers and rules
 - Patch 8 adds support for a new destination type - UPLINK
 - Patch 9 adds WARN_ON_ONCE on refcount checks in SW steering object destructors
 - Patches 10, 11, 12 add misc5 flow table match parameters and add support for
   matching on tunnel headers 0 and 1
 - Patch 13 adds support for matching on geneve_tlv_option_0_exist field
 - Patch 14 implements performance optimization for for empty or RX/TX-only
   matchers by splitting RX and TX matchers handling: matcher connection in the
   matchers chain is split into two separate lists (RX only and TX only), which
   solves a usecase of many RX or TX only rules that create a long chain of
   RX/TX-only paths w/o the actual rules
 - Patch 15 ignores modify TTL if device doesn't support it instead of
   adding and unsupported action
 - Patch 16 sets SMFS as a default steering mode
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-12-31 14:29:31 +00:00
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