mlxsw: spectrum_span: Prepare work item to update mirroring agents
The driver updates its mirroring agents whenever it receives a notification about an event that can affect these. For example, the addition of a route might require the driver to change the egress port of an ERSPAN session. Currently, RTNL needs to be held when these agents are updates, so the driver either: 1. Calls directly into the mirroring code, in case RTNL is held 2. Schedules a work item that will take RTNL and call into the mirroring code Simplify this by having the mirroring code schedule the work item for the update instead of requiring callers to schedule a work item themselves. The conversion of the callers will be done in the next patch to make review easier. This will later allow us to remove RTNL from different parts of the driver. It will also allow us to only schedule the work item in case there are active mirroring agents, which is information private to the mirroring code. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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