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Cascading DSA switches can be done multiple ways. There is the brute force approach / tag stacking, where one upstream switch, located between leaf switches and the host Ethernet controller, will just happily transport the DSA header of those leaf switches as payload. For this kind of setups, DSA works without any special kind of treatment compared to a single switch - they just aren't aware of each other. Then there's the approach where the upstream switch understands the tags it transports from its leaves below, as it doesn't push a tag of its own, but it routes based on the source port & switch id information present in that tag (as opposed to DMAC & VID) and it strips the tag when egressing a front-facing port. Currently only Marvell implements the latter, and Marvell DSA trees contain only Marvell switches. So it is safe to say that DSA trees already have a single tag protocol shared by all switches, and in fact this is what makes the switches able to understand each other. This fact is also implied by the fact that currently, the tagging protocol is reported as part of a sysfs installed on the DSA master and not per port, so it must be the same for all the ports connected to that DSA master regardless of the switch that they belong to. It's time to make this official and enforce it (yes, this also means we won't have any "switch understands tag to some extent but is not able to speak it" hardware oddities that we'll support in the future). This is needed due to the imminent introduction of the dsa_switch_ops:: change_tag_protocol driver API. When that is introduced, we'll have to notify switches of the tagging protocol that they're configured to use. Currently the tag_ops structure pointer is held only for CPU ports. But there are switches which don't have CPU ports and nonetheless still need to be configured. These would be Marvell leaf switches whose upstream port is just a DSA link. How do we inform these of their tagging protocol setup/deletion? One answer to the above would be: iterate through the DSA switch tree's ports once, list the CPU ports, get their tag_ops, then iterate again now that we have it, and notify everybody of that tag_ops. But what to do if conflicts appear between one cpu_dp->tag_ops and another? There's no escaping the fact that conflict resolution needs to be done, so we can be upfront about it. Ease our work and just keep the master copy of the tag_ops inside the struct dsa_switch_tree. Reference counting is now moved to be per-tree too, instead of per-CPU port. There are many places in the data path that access master->dsa_ptr->tag_ops and we would introduce unnecessary performance penalty going through yet another indirection, so keep those right where they are. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.