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Or Gerlitz says:
 
 This series adds support for offloading modifications of packet headers using
 ConnectX-5 HW header re-write as an action applied during packet steering.
 
 The offloaded SW mechanism is TC's pedit action. The offloading is
 supported for E-Switch steering of VF traffic in the SRIOV
 switchdev mode and for NIC (non eswitch) RX.
 
 One use-case for this offload on virtual networks, is when the hypervisor
 implements flow based router such as Open-Stack's DVR, where L2 headers
 of guest packets re-written with routers' MAC addresses and the IP TTL
 is decremented.
 
 Another use case (which can be applied in parallel with routing) is
 stateless NAT where guest L3/L4 headers are re-written.
 
 The series is built as follows: the 1st six patches are preperations which
 don't yet add new functionality, patches 7-8 add the FW APIs (data-structures
 and commands) for header re-write, and patch nine allows offloading driver
 to access pedit keys.
 
 The 10th patch is somehow the core of the series, where we translate from
 the pedit way to represent set of header modification elements to the FW
 API for that same matter.
 
 Once a set of HW modification is established, we register it with the FW
 and get a modify header ID. When this ID is used with an action during
 packet steering, the HW applies the header modification on the packet.
 
 Patches 11 and 12 implement the above logic as an offload for pedit action
 for the NIC and E-Switch use-cases.
 
 I'd like to thanks Elijah Shakkour <elijahs@mellanox.com> for implementing
 and helping me testing this functionality on HW simulator, before it could
 be done with FW.
 
 - Or.
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Merge tag 'mlx5e-pedit' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

Or Gerlitz says:

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mlx5e-pedit 2017-03-28

This series adds support for offloading modifications of packet headers using
ConnectX-5 HW header re-write as an action applied during packet steering.

The offloaded SW mechanism is TC's pedit action. The offloading is
supported for E-Switch steering of VF traffic in the SRIOV
switchdev mode and for NIC (non eswitch) RX.

One use-case for this offload on virtual networks, is when the hypervisor
implements flow based router such as Open-Stack's DVR, where L2 headers
of guest packets re-written with routers' MAC addresses and the IP TTL
is decremented.

Another use case (which can be applied in parallel with routing) is
stateless NAT where guest L3/L4 headers are re-written.

The series is built as follows: the 1st six patches are preperations which
don't yet add new functionality, patches 7-8 add the FW APIs (data-structures
and commands) for header re-write, and patch nine allows offloading driver
to access pedit keys.

The 10th patch is somehow the core of the series, where we translate from
the pedit way to represent set of header modification elements to the FW
API for that same matter.

Once a set of HW modification is established, we register it with the FW
and get a modify header ID. When this ID is used with an action during
packet steering, the HW applies the header modification on the packet.

Patches 11 and 12 implement the above logic as an offload for pedit action
for the NIC and E-Switch use-cases.

I'd like to thanks Elijah Shakkour <elijahs@mellanox.com> for implementing
and helping me testing this functionality on HW simulator, before it could
be done with FW.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-03-29 11:24:21 -07:00
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