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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-30 18:04:27 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-30 12:56:38 -0700
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docs: networking: convert switchdev.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - use copyright symbol; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt)116
2 files changed, 66 insertions, 51 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index e5a705024c6a..5e495804f96f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Contents:
seg6-sysctl
skfp
strparser
+ switchdev
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst
index 86174ce8cd13..ddc3f35775dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+===============================================
Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev)
===============================================
-Copyright (c) 2014 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
-Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
+
+Copyright |copy| 2014 Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
+
+Copyright |copy| 2014-2015 Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
The Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev) is an in-kernel driver
@@ -12,53 +18,57 @@ Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the components of the switchdev model for
an example setup using a data-center-class switch ASIC chip. Other setups
with SR-IOV or soft switches, such as OVS, are possible.
+::
- User-space tools
+
+ User-space tools
user space |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
kernel | Netlink
- |
- +--------------+-------------------------------+
- | Network stack |
- | (Linux) |
- | |
- +----------------------------------------------+
-
- sw1p2 sw1p4 sw1p6
- sw1p1 + sw1p3 + sw1p5 + eth1
- + | + | + | +
- | | | | | | |
- +--+----+----+----+----+----+---+ +-----+-----+
- | Switch driver | | mgmt |
- | (this document) | | driver |
- | | | |
- +--------------+----------------+ +-----------+
- |
+ |
+ +--------------+-------------------------------+
+ | Network stack |
+ | (Linux) |
+ | |
+ +----------------------------------------------+
+
+ sw1p2 sw1p4 sw1p6
+ sw1p1 + sw1p3 + sw1p5 + eth1
+ + | + | + | +
+ | | | | | | |
+ +--+----+----+----+----+----+---+ +-----+-----+
+ | Switch driver | | mgmt |
+ | (this document) | | driver |
+ | | | |
+ +--------------+----------------+ +-----------+
+ |
kernel | HW bus (eg PCI)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
hardware |
- +--------------+----------------+
- | Switch device (sw1) |
- | +----+ +--------+
- | | v offloaded data path | mgmt port
- | | | |
- +--|----|----+----+----+----+---+
- | | | | | |
- + + + + + +
- p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6
+ +--------------+----------------+
+ | Switch device (sw1) |
+ | +----+ +--------+
+ | | v offloaded data path | mgmt port
+ | | | |
+ +--|----|----+----+----+----+---+
+ | | | | | |
+ + + + + + +
+ p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6
- front-panel ports
+ front-panel ports
- Fig 1.
+ Fig 1.
Include Files
-------------
-#include <linux/netdevice.h>
-#include <net/switchdev.h>
+::
+
+ #include <linux/netdevice.h>
+ #include <net/switchdev.h>
Configuration
@@ -114,10 +124,10 @@ Using port PHYS name (ndo_get_phys_port_name) for the key is particularly
useful for dynamically-named ports where the device names its ports based on
external configuration. For example, if a physical 40G port is split logically
into 4 10G ports, resulting in 4 port netdevs, the device can give a unique
-name for each port using port PHYS name. The udev rule would be:
+name for each port using port PHYS name. The udev rule would be::
-SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_switch_id}=="<phys_switch_id>", \
- ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="swX$attr{phys_port_name}"
+ SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_switch_id}=="<phys_switch_id>", \
+ ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="swX$attr{phys_port_name}"
Suggested naming convention is "swXpYsZ", where X is the switch name or ID, Y
is the port name or ID, and Z is the sub-port name or ID. For example, sw1p1s0
@@ -173,7 +183,7 @@ Static FDB Entries
The switchdev driver should implement ndo_fdb_add, ndo_fdb_del and ndo_fdb_dump
to support static FDB entries installed to the device. Static bridge FDB
-entries are installed, for example, using iproute2 bridge cmd:
+entries are installed, for example, using iproute2 bridge cmd::
bridge fdb add ADDR dev DEV [vlan VID] [self]
@@ -185,7 +195,7 @@ XXX: what should be done if offloading this rule to hardware fails (for
example, due to full capacity in hardware tables) ?
Note: by default, the bridge does not filter on VLAN and only bridges untagged
-traffic. To enable VLAN support, turn on VLAN filtering:
+traffic. To enable VLAN support, turn on VLAN filtering::
echo 1 >/sys/class/net/<bridge>/bridge/vlan_filtering
@@ -194,7 +204,7 @@ Notification of Learned/Forgotten Source MAC/VLANs
The switch device will learn/forget source MAC address/VLAN on ingress packets
and notify the switch driver of the mac/vlan/port tuples. The switch driver,
-in turn, will notify the bridge driver using the switchdev notifier call:
+in turn, will notify the bridge driver using the switchdev notifier call::
err = call_switchdev_notifiers(val, dev, info, extack);
@@ -202,7 +212,7 @@ Where val is SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD when learning and SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL when
forgetting, and info points to a struct switchdev_notifier_fdb_info. On
SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD, the bridge driver will install the FDB entry into the
bridge's FDB and mark the entry as NTF_EXT_LEARNED. The iproute2 bridge
-command will label these entries "offload":
+command will label these entries "offload"::
$ bridge fdb
52:54:00:12:35:01 dev sw1p1 master br0 permanent
@@ -219,11 +229,11 @@ command will label these entries "offload":
01:00:5e:00:00:01 dev br0 self permanent
33:33:ff:12:35:01 dev br0 self permanent
-Learning on the port should be disabled on the bridge using the bridge command:
+Learning on the port should be disabled on the bridge using the bridge command::
bridge link set dev DEV learning off
-Learning on the device port should be enabled, as well as learning_sync:
+Learning on the device port should be enabled, as well as learning_sync::
bridge link set dev DEV learning on self
bridge link set dev DEV learning_sync on self
@@ -314,12 +324,16 @@ forwards the packet to the matching FIB entry's nexthop(s) egress ports.
To program the device, the driver has to register a FIB notifier handler
using register_fib_notifier. The following events are available:
-FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD: used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
- or modifying an existing entry on the device.
-FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL: used for removing a FIB entry
-FIB_EVENT_RULE_ADD, FIB_EVENT_RULE_DEL: used to propagate FIB rule changes
-FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass:
+=================== ===================================================
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
+ or modifying an existing entry on the device.
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL used for removing a FIB entry
+FIB_EVENT_RULE_ADD,
+FIB_EVENT_RULE_DEL used to propagate FIB rule changes
+=================== ===================================================
+
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass::
struct fib_entry_notifier_info {
struct fib_notifier_info info; /* must be first */
@@ -332,12 +346,12 @@ FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass:
u32 nlflags;
};
-to add/modify/delete IPv4 dst/dest_len prefix on table tb_id. The *fi
-structure holds details on the route and route's nexthops. *dev is one of the
-port netdevs mentioned in the route's next hop list.
+to add/modify/delete IPv4 dst/dest_len prefix on table tb_id. The ``*fi``
+structure holds details on the route and route's nexthops. ``*dev`` is one
+of the port netdevs mentioned in the route's next hop list.
Routes offloaded to the device are labeled with "offload" in the ip route
-listing:
+listing::
$ ip route show
default via 192.168.0.2 dev eth0