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    ice: Add support for VSI allocation and deallocation · 3a858ba3
    Anirudh Venkataramanan authored
    This patch introduces data structures and functions to alloc/free
    VSIs. The driver represents a VSI using the ice_vsi structure.
    
    Some noteworthy points about VSI allocation:
    
    1) A VSI is allocated in the firmware using the "add VSI" admin queue
       command (implemented as ice_aq_add_vsi). The firmware returns an
       identifier for the allocated VSI. The VSI context is used to program
       certain aspects (loopback, queue map, etc.) of the VSI's configuration.
    
    2) A VSI is deleted using the "free VSI" admin queue command (implemented
       as ice_aq_free_vsi).
    
    3) The driver represents a VSI using struct ice_vsi. This is allocated
       and initialized as part of the ice_vsi_alloc flow, and deallocated
       as part of the ice_vsi_delete flow.
    
    4) Once the VSI is created, a netdev is allocated and associated with it.
       The VSI's ring and vector related data structures are also allocated
       and initialized.
    
    5) A VSI's queues can either be contiguous or scattered. To do this, the
       driver maintains a bitmap (vsi->avail_txqs) which is kept in sync with
       the firmware's VSI queue allocation imap. If the VSI can't get a
       contiguous queue allocation, it will fallback to scatter. This is
       implemented in ice_vsi_get_qs which is called as part of the VSI setup
       flow. In the release flow, the VSI's queues are released and the bitmap
       is updated to reflect this by ice_vsi_put_qs.
    
    CC: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarShannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarTony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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