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nfp: add flower app with representors

this series adds a flower app to the NFP driver.
It initialises four types of netdevs:

* PF netdev - lower-device for communication of packets to device
* PF representor netdev
* VF representor netdevs
* Phys port representor netdevs

The PF netdev acts as a lower-device which sends and receives packets to
and from the firmware. The representors act as upper-devices. For TX
representors attach a metadata dst to the skb which is used by the PF
netdev to prepend metadata to the packet before forwarding the firmware. On
RX the PF netdev looks up the representor based on the prepended metadata
received from the firmware and forwards the skb to the representor after
removing the metadata.

Control queues are used to send and receive control messages which are
used to communicate configuration information with the firmware. These
are in separate vNIC to the queues belonging to the PF netdev. The control
queues are not exposed to use-space via a netdev or any other means.

The first 9 patches of this series provide app-independent infrastructure
to instantiate representors and the remaining 3 patches provide an app
which uses this infrastructure.

As the name implies this app is targeted at providing offload of TC flower.
Flower offload - allowing classifiers to be attached to representor netdevs
- is intended to be provided by follow-up patches at which point it will
become the dominant feature of the app.

Minor changes since v2 noted in changelogs of individual patches.
Review of v1 and v2 of this patchset have been addressed either
through discussion on-list or changes in this patchset.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-06-25 11:42:09 -04:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-06-21 17:35:22 -04:00
block block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression 2017-06-14 13:27:50 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto : asymmetric_keys : verify_pefile:zero memory content before freeing 2017-06-09 13:29:50 +10:00
Documentation dt-bindings: Add "internal" as a valid 'phy-mode' property 2017-06-23 15:06:42 -04:00
drivers nfp: add VF and PF representors to flower app 2017-06-25 11:42:02 -04:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-06-21 17:35:22 -04:00
include net: store port/representator id in metadata_dst 2017-06-25 11:42:01 -04:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel bpf: possibly avoid extra masking for narrower load in verifier 2017-06-23 14:04:11 -04:00
lib net: manual clean code which call skb_put_[data:zero] 2017-06-20 13:30:15 -04:00
mm Allow stack to grow up to address space limit 2017-06-21 11:07:18 -07:00
net net: store port/representator id in metadata_dst 2017-06-25 11:42:01 -04:00
samples samples/bpf: fix a build problem 2017-06-22 11:35:19 -04:00
scripts scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably) 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
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sound ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT 2017-06-07 10:25:23 +02:00
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Linux kernel
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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.