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Yuval Mintz says: qed*: Support VF XDP attachment ==================== Each driver queue [Rx, Tx, XDP-forwarding] requires an allocated HW/FW connection + configured queue-zone. VF handling by the PF has several limitations that prevented adding the capability to perform XDP at driver-level: - The VF assumes there's 1-to-1 correspondance between the VF queue and the used connection, meaning q<x> is always going to use cid<x>, whereas for its own queues the PF is acquiring a new cid per each new queue. - There's a 1-to-1 correspondate between the VF-queues and the HW queue zones. While this is necessary for Rx-queues [as the queue-zone contains the producer], transmission queues can share the underlaying queue-zone [only shared configuration is coalescing]. But all VF<->PF communication mechanisms assume there's a single identifier that identify a queue [as queue-zone == queue], while sharing queue-zones requires passing additional information. - VFs currently don't try mapping a doorbell bar - there's a small doorbell window in the regview allowing VFs to doorbell up to 16 connections; but this window isn's wide enough for the added XDP forwarding queues. This series is going to add the necessary infrastrucutre to finally let our VFs support XDP assuming both the PF and VF drivers are sufficiently new [Legacy support would be retained both for older VFs and older PFs, but both will be needed for this new support to work]. Basically, the various database driver maintains for its queue-cids would be revised, and queue-cids would be identified using the (queue-zone, unique index) pair. The TLV mechanism would then be extended to allow VFs to communicate that unique-index as well as the already provided queue-zone. Finally, the VFs would try to map their doorbell bar and inform their PF that they're using it. Almost all the changes are in qed, with exception of #3 [which does some cleanup in qede as well] and #11 that actually enables the feature. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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