Or Gerlitz says:

====================
Introducing ConnectX-4 Ethernet SRIOV

This patchset introduces the support of Ethernet SRIOV in ConnectX-4
family of 100G Ethernet NICs.

Some features are still missing, but all the basic SRIOV functionalities
are there already.

Basic Introduction:
ConnectX-4 HW architecture provides two kinds of underlying HW switches.

MPFS (Multi Physical Function Switch) or L2 Table in Software terms:

The HCA has one MPFS switch per physical port, this switch is responsible
of forwarding Unicast traffic to the various overlying Physical Functions (PFs).
Multicast traffic is flooded amongst all the PFs, Each PF can request to
forward a unicast MAC to its E-Switch Uplink vport (which we will cover later)
through SET_L2_TABLE_ENTRY HW command.

MPFS has five ports, four are connected to PFs (one for each) and one is connected
directly to the Physical Port (Physical Link).

E-Switch (Ethernet Switch):

The HCA has one per physical function. The main responsibility of this component is
to forward Unicast/Multicast and vlan tagged/untagged traffic to the various
Virtual Functions (VFs) allocated by the PF. Unlike MPFS, the PF needs to explicitly
create the E-Switch FDB table, Which is a HW flow table managed by the PF driver
whenever vport_group_manager capability bit is set for this PF.

E-Switch has Virtual Ports (vports) entities as its ports, vport0 and uplink vport
are special kind of vports that represents PF vport (vport0) and uplink vport which
is connected to the MPFS switch (if exists) as the PF external link.
vport1..vportN represent VF0..VF(N-1) egress/ingress ports.

E-Switch FDB contains forwarding rules such as:
        UC MAC0 -> vport0(PF).
        UC MAC1 -> vport1.
        UC MAC2 -> vport2.
        MC MACX -> vport0, vport2, Uplink.
        MC MACY -> vport1, Uplink.

    For unmatched traffic FDB has the following default rules:
        Unmatched Traffic (src vport != Uplink) -> Uplink.
        Unmatched Traffic (src vport == Uplink) -> vport0(PF).

NIC VPort context:
Each NIC (VF/PF) has its own vport context which will be used to store the current
NIC vport context (UC/MC and vlan lists) and other NIC properties such as MTU, promisc
mode, etc.. NIC (VF/PF) driver is responsible of constantly updating this context.

FDB rules population:
Each NIC vport (VF/PF) will notify E-Switch manager of its UC/MC vport
context changes via modify vport context command, which will be
translated to an event that will be handled by E-Switch manager (PF)
which will update FDB table accordingly.

Both PF and VF use the same driver and submit commands directly to the firmware.
The PF sees the vport_group_manager capability bit and as such runs the code
to populate the embedded switches as explained above.

The patch goes as follows:

Patches 1-2 introduces the basic PCI SRIOV functionalities and the support of
Connectx4 to enable specific VFs via enable/disable HCA commands. These two
patches will be also in use later for the IB SRIOV flow.

Patches 3-8 Introduces the basic E-Switch capabilities and commands to be used later by
VF to modify and update its NIC vport context, and by PF (E-Switch Manager) driver to
Query the VF NIC context and acts accordingly.

Patches 9-10 Provide the needed functionality of a NIC driver VF/PF to support SRIOV,
mainly vport context update support.

Patch 11 ("net/mlx5: Introducing E-Switch and l2 table"), Introduces the basic
E-Switch support and infrastructure to read vport context events and to update
MPFS L2 Table of the UC mac addresses request by the PF.

Patches 12-18 Introduces SRIOV enablemenet and E-Switch FDB table management
It adds the Basic E-Swtich public API to set and get sriov properties to be used
in PF netdev sriov ndos.

Patchset was applied ontop of commit 3f8c0f7e "gianfar: use of_property_read_bool()"

Saeed, Eli and Or.

changes from V0, addressed feedback from Alex Duyck:
 - patch 09, remove the loop to seek the device address
 - patch 09, avoid using array as returned value from helper function
 - patch 10, fix possible buffer over-run

changes from V1, addressed feedback from and Julia Lawall and kbuild test robot
 - patch 11 check the right variable for allocation failure
 - patch 18 eliminated unneeded semicolon
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Implement and enable SR-IOV ndos to manage SR-IOV configuration via
netdev netlink API.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add support to get VF statistics using query vport
counter command.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add query and modify functions to control client vlan and qos
striping or insertion, in E-Switch vports contexts.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

E-Switch vport context is unlike NIC vport context, managed by the
E-Switch manager or vport_group_manager and not by the NIC(VF) driver.

The E-Switch manager can access (read/modify) any of its vports
E-Switch context.

Currently E-Switch vport context includes only clietnt and server
vlan insertion and striping data (for later support of VST mode).
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Implement set VF mac/link state and query VF config
to be used later in nedev VF ndos or any other management API.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Enabling E-Switch SRIOV for nvfs+1 vports.

Create E-Switch FDB for L2 UC/MC mac steering between VFs/PF and
external vport (Uplink).

FDB contains forwarding rules such as:
	UC MAC0 -> vport0(PF).
	UC MAC1 -> vport1.
	UC MAC2 -> vport2.
	MC MACX -> vport0, vport2, Uplink.
	MC MACY -> vport1, Uplink.

For unmatched traffic FDB has the following default rules:
	Unmached Traffic (src vport != Uplink) -> Uplink.
	Unmached Traffic (src vport == Uplink) -> vport0(PF).

FDB rules population:
Each NIC vport (VF) will notify E-Switch manager of its UC/MC vport
context changes via modify vport context command, which will be
translated to an event that will be handled by E-Switch manager (PF)
which will update FDB table accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Define needed hardware structures and capabilities needed
for E-Switch FDB flow tables and read them on driver load.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

E-Switch is the software entity that represents and manages ConnectX4
inter-HCA ethernet l2 switching.

E-Switch has its own Virtual Ports, each Vport/vNIC/VF can be
connected to the device through a vport of an e-switch.

Each e-switch is managed by one vNIC identified by
HCA_CAP.vport_group_manager (usually it is the PF/vport[0]),
and its main responsibility is to forward each packet to the
right vport.

e-Switch needs to manage its own l2-table and FDB tables.

L2 table is a flow table that is managed by FW, it is needed for
Multi-host (Multi PF) configuration for inter HCA switching between
PFs.

FDB table is a flow table that is totally managed by e-Switch driver,
its main responsibility is to switch packets between e-Swtich internal
vports and uplink vport that belong to the same.

This patch introduces only e-Swtich l2 table management, FDB managemnt
will come later when ethernet SRIOV/VFs will be enabled.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Each Vport/vNIC must notify underlying e-Switch layer
for vlan table changes in-order to update SR-IOV FDB tables.

We do that at vlan_rx_add_vid and vlan_rx_kill_vid ndos.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Each Vport/vNIC must notify underlying e-Switch layer
for UC/MC list and promisc mode updates, in-order to update
l2 tables and SR-IOV FDB tables.

We do that at set_rx_mode ndo.

preperation for ethernet-SRIOV and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Those functions are needed to notify the upcoming L2 table and SR-IOV
E-Switch(FDB) manager(PF), of the NIC vport (vf) vlan table changes.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Those functions are needed to notify the upcoming SR-IOV
E-Switch(FDB) manager(PF), of the NIC vport (vf) promisc mode changes.

Preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In preparation for SR-IOV we add here an API to enable each e-switch
manager (PF) to configure its VFs link states in e-switch

preparation for ethernet sriov.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Those functions are needed to notify the upcoming L2 table and SR-IOV
E-Switch(FDB) manager(PF), of the NIC vport (vf) UC/MC mac lists
changes.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In preparation for SR-IOV we add here an API to enable each e-switch
client (PF/VF) to configure its L2 MAC addresses and for the e-switch
manager (usually the PF) to access them in order to be able to
configure them into the e-switch.
Therefore we now pass vport num parameter to
mlx5_query_nic_vport_context, so PF can access other vports contexts.

preperation for ethernet sriov and l2 table management.
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Update HCA capabilities and HW struct to include needed
capabilities for upcoming Ethernet Switch (SR-IOV E-Switch).
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds SRIOV base support for mlx5 supported devices. The same
driver is used for both PFs and VFs; VFs are identified by the driver
through the flag MLX5_PCI_DEV_IS_VF added to the pci table entries.
Virtual functions are created as usual through writing a value to the
sriov_numvs sysfs file of the PF device. Upon instantiating VFs, they will
all be probed by the driver on the hypervisor. One can gracefully unbind
them through /sys/bus/pci/drivers/mlx5_core/unbind.

mlx5_wait_for_vf_pages() was added to ensure that when a VF dies without
executing proper teardown, the hypervisor driver waits till all of the
pages that were allocated at the hypervisor to maintain its operation
are returned.

In order for the VF to be operational, the PF needs to call enable_hca
for it. This can be done before the VFs are created through a call to
pci_enable_sriov.

If the there are VFs assigned to a VMs when the driver of the PF is
unloaded, all the VF will experience system error and PF driver unloads
cleanly; in this case pci_disable_sriov is not called and the devices
will show when running lspci. Once the PF driver is reloaded, it will
sync its data structures which maintain state on its VFs.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Modify these functions to have func_id argument to state which device we
are referring to. This is done as a preparation for SRIOV support where
a PF driver needs to control its virtual functions.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Reasonably sure this doesn't serve any purpose.

CC: Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@gmail.com>
CC: Chris Snook <chris.snook@gmail.com>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jiri Pirko says:

====================
bonding/team offload + mlxsw implementation

This patchset introduces needed infrastructure for link aggregation
offload - for both team and bonding. It also implements the offload
in mlxsw driver.

Particulary, this patchset introduces possibility for upper driver
(bond/team/bridge/..) to pass type-specific info down to notifier listeners.
Info is passed along with NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER/NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER
notifiers. Listeners (drivers of netdevs being enslaved) can react
accordingly.

Other extension is for run-time use. This patchset introduces
new netdev notifier type - NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE. Along with this
notification, the upper driver (bond/team/bridge/..) can pass some
information about lower device change, particulary link-up and
TX-enabled states. Listeners (drivers of netdevs being enslaved)
can react accordingly.

The last part of the patchset is implementation of LAG offload in mlxsw,
using both previously introduced infrastructre extensions.

Note that bond-speficic (and ugly) NETDEV_BONDING_INFO used by mlx4
can be removed and mlx4 can use the extensions this patchset adds.
I plan to convert it and get rid of NETDEV_BONDING_INFO in
a follow-up patchset.

v2->v3:
- one small fix in patch 1
v1->v2:
- added patch 1 and 2 per Andy's request
- couple of more or less cosmetic changes described in couple other patches
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Enabling/disabling TX on a LAG port means enabling/disabling distribution
in our HW.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Implement FDB offloading for lagged ports, including learning LAG FDB
entries, adding/removing static FDB entries and dumping existing LAG FDB
entries.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Implement basic procedures for joining/leaving port to/from LAG. That
includes HW setup of collector, core LAG mapping setup.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

LAG-related records have specific format in SFN register.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

LAG-related records have specific format in SFD register.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add definitions of SLDR, SLCR2, SLCOR registers that are used to
configure LAG.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Completion queue element for receive queue provides information if the
packet was received via LAG port. Extract this info and pass it along
to core.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Lower layer (pci) has information if the packet is received via LAG port.
If that is the case, it fills up rx_info accordingly. However upper
layer does not care about lag_id/port_index for received packets so
convert it to local_port before passing it up. For that conversion, lag
mapping array is introduced. Upper layer is responsible for setting up
the mapping according to what is set in HW.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add just a stub for now. This allows to pass check in dev_ifsioc,
SIOCADDMULTI and SIOCDELMULTI cases. Teamd is using these to add LACP
slow MAC.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Be correct and symmetric to enslave and set inactive flags during release.
That gives LAG offload drivers - lower state change listeners - possibility
to do proper cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Let netdev notifier listeners know about link and slave state change.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Similar to state notifications.

We allow caller to indicate if the notification should happen now or later,
depending on if he holds rtnl mutex or not. Introduce bond_slave_link_notify
function (similar to bond_slave_state_notify) which is later on called
with rtnl mutex and goes over slaves and executes delayed notification.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Let netdev notifier listeners know about link-up and port-enable state
changes.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

During options set, there will be needed to hold rtnl_mutex in order to
safely call netdev notifiers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is shared info structure for bonding and team. Serves to pass down
info about link state and port activity to notification listeners.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When lower device like bonding slave, team/bridge port, etc changes its
state, it is useful for others to notice this change. Currently this is
implemented specificly for bonding as NETDEV_BONDING_INFO notifier. This
patch aims to replace this specific usage and make this more generic to
be used for all upper-lower devices.

Introduce NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE netdev notifier type and
netdev_lower_state_changed() helper.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initialize netdev_lag_upper_info structure by TX type according to
current bonding mode and pass it along via netdev_master_upper_dev_link.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initialize netdev_lag_upper_info structure by TX type according to
current team mode and pass it along via netdev_master_upper_dev_link.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This struct will be shared by bonding and team to pass internal
information to notifier listeners.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>