Merge branch 'mlx5-flow-mutate' into rdma.git for-next
For dependencies, branch based on 'mellanox/mlx5-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git Pull Flow actions to mutate packets from Leon Romanovsky: ==================== This series exposes the ability to create flow actions which can mutate packet headers. We do that by exposing two new verbs: * modify header - can change existing packet headers. packet * reformat - can encapsulate or decapsulate a packet. Once created a flow action must be attached to a steering rule for it to take effect. The first 10 patches refactor mlx5_core code, rename internal structures to better reflect their operation and export needed functions so the RDMA side can allocate the action. The last 5 patches expose via the IOCTL infrastructure mlx5_ib methods which do the actual allocation of resources and return an handle to the user. A user of this API is expected to know how to work with the device's spec as the input to those function is HW depended. An example usage of the modify header action is routing, A user can create an action which edits the L2 header and decrease the TTL. An example usage of the packet reformat action is VXLAN encap/decap which is done by the HW. ==================== * branch 'mlx5-flow-mutate': RDMA/mlx5: Extend packet reformat verbs RDMA/mlx5: Add new flow action verb - packet reformat RDMA/uverbs: Add generic function to fill in flow action object RDMA/mlx5: Add a new flow action verb - modify header RDMA/uverbs: Add UVERBS_ATTR_CONST_IN to the specs language net/mlx5: Export packet reformat alloc/dealloc functions net/mlx5: Pass a namespace for packet reformat ID allocation net/mlx5: Expose new packet reformat capabilities {net, RDMA}/mlx5: Rename encap to reformat packet net/mlx5: Move header encap type to IFC header file net/mlx5: Break encap/decap into two separated flow table creation flags net/mlx5: Add support for more namespaces when allocating modify header net/mlx5: Export modify header alloc/dealloc functions net/mlx5: Add proper NIC TX steering flow tables support net/mlx5: Cleanup flow namespace getter switch logic Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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