net/mlx5: Introducing E-Switch and l2 table

E-Switch is the software entity that represents and manages ConnectX4
inter-HCA ethernet l2 switching.

E-Switch has its own Virtual Ports, each Vport/vNIC/VF can be
connected to the device through a vport of an e-switch.

Each e-switch is managed by one vNIC identified by
HCA_CAP.vport_group_manager (usually it is the PF/vport[0]),
and its main responsibility is to forward each packet to the
right vport.

e-Switch needs to manage its own l2-table and FDB tables.

L2 table is a flow table that is managed by FW, it is needed for
Multi-host (Multi PF) configuration for inter HCA switching between
PFs.

FDB table is a flow table that is totally managed by e-Switch driver,
its main responsibility is to switch packets between e-Swtich internal
vports and uplink vport that belong to the same.

This patch introduces only e-Swtich l2 table management, FDB managemnt
will come later when ethernet SRIOV/VFs will be enabled.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
index efebb87163c8..ac098b6b97bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
@@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ struct mlx5_irq_info {
 	char name[MLX5_MAX_IRQ_NAME];
 };
 
+struct mlx5_eswitch;
+
 struct mlx5_priv {
 	char			name[MLX5_MAX_NAME_LEN];
 	struct mlx5_eq_table	eq_table;
@@ -496,6 +498,8 @@ struct mlx5_priv {
 	struct list_head        dev_list;
 	struct list_head        ctx_list;
 	spinlock_t              ctx_lock;
+
+	struct mlx5_eswitch     *eswitch;
 	struct mlx5_core_sriov	sriov;
 	unsigned long		pci_dev_data;
 };