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Ido Schimmel c57529e1d5 mlxsw: spectrum: Replace vPorts with Port-VLAN
As explained in the cover letter, since the introduction of the bridge
offload in the mlxsw driver, information related to the offloaded bridge
and bridge ports was stored in the individual port struct,
mlxsw_sp_port.

This lead to a bloated struct storing both physical properties of the
port (e.g., autoneg status) as well as logical properties of an upper
bridge port (e.g., learning, mrouter indication). While this might work
well for simple devices, it proved to be hard to extend when stacked
devices were taken into account and more advanced use-cases (e.g., IGMP
snooping) considered.

This patch removes the excess information from the above struct and
instead stores it in more appropriate structs that represent the bridge
port, the bridge itself and a VLAN configured on the bridge port.

The membership of a port in a bridge is denoted using the Port-VLAN
struct, which points to the bridge port and also member in the bridge
VLAN group of the VLAN it represents. This allows us to completely
remove the vPort abstraction and consolidate many of the code paths
relating to VLAN-aware and unaware bridges.

Note that the FID / vFID code is currently duplicated, but this will
soon go away when the common FID core will be introduced.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-26 15:18:47 -04:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-22 23:32:48 -04:00
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certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation net: sysfs: Document PHY device sysfs attributes 2017-05-26 14:37:41 -04:00
drivers mlxsw: spectrum: Replace vPorts with Port-VLAN 2017-05-26 15:18:47 -04:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
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kernel Power management updates for v4.12-rc3 2017-05-22 19:24:32 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
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samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
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sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.