Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:35 +0100
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Gary Thomas <gary@...assoc.com>
Cc:	jdb@...x.dk, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marvell 88E609x switch?

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:20:21AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:

> >> After much experimentation, I finally found out what was
> >> wrong.  Basically, the trunk masks have 8 bits on the 6131,
> >> but 11 bits on the 609x and this wasn't being handled.  Once
> >> the trunk masks were reset by the init code, there was no
> >> path to the CPU port from the LAN ports :-(  The attached
> >> patch is what I've ended up with.  It works, at least for
> >> a single switch.
> > 
> > Cool.  How about the patch below then?
> 
> This looks fine to me - is this part safe on the smaller parts
> (6131, etc)?  I wasn't sure about setting those "reserved" bits
> on other chips.

It should be OK, but I'll test it to make sure.


> > That's a bit trickier, but also not entirely hard:
> > - Instead of the CPU port concept, we'll have to use the port number
> >   that brings us one hop closer to the CPU (i.e. the upstream port).
> > - Assign each chip a DSA device address (instead of always setting it
> >   to zero).
> > - Populate the 'DSA device address -> port' mapping table for each
> >   switch.
> > - Enable DSA tagging and flooding of unknown unicasts and multicasts
> >   on all inter-switch links and not just on the CPU port on switch 0.
> > 
> > I don't think it makes sense to implement Dijkstra in the kernel, so
> > it's probably easiest to just pass in a precomputed NxN array of how
> > to go from which switch to which switch via which port, along with a
> > separate DSA port list for each switch chip.
> > 
> > I don't have multi-switch chip setups myself, or I would have
> > implemented this already.  But I can whip up some patches to try..
> 
> That would be great.  What I'd like to figure out is a
> way to provide that mapping (static from the driver point
> of view), much like the current "port_names[]" table now.

Something a la the attached patch should be enough from the
data structure point of view, AFAICS.  And then you'd have:


> For my particular setup, there are two cases (on the same
> board):
>   Switch 1 - ports 1..8
>   Switch 2 - ports 9..16
>     Switch 3 - ports 17..24 (cascaded off of Switch 2)
> Thus, the only access to Switch 3 and its ports is indirect via
> Switch 2.
> 
> Presumably, one could have a multiple cascade, so this structure
> should be considered from the start.

Switch 1 can correspond to its own DSA platform device as it is now.

And for switch 2/3 you'd then have something a la:


struct dsa_switch_data switches[] = {
	{
		.mii_bus = &blah,
		.sw_addr = 2,
		.port_names[0] = "p9",
		.port_names[1] = "p10",
		.port_names[2] = "p11",
		.port_names[3] = "p12",
		.port_names[4] = "p13",
		.port_names[5] = "p14",
		.port_names[6] = "p15",
		.port_names[7] = "p16",
		.port_names[9] = "dsa",
		.port_names[10] = "cpu",
	}, {
		.mii_bus = &blah,
		.sw_addr = 3,
		.port_names[0] = "p17",
		.port_names[1] = "p18",
		.port_names[2] = "p19",
		.port_names[3] = "p20",
		.port_names[4] = "p21",
		.port_names[5] = "p22",
		.port_names[6] = "p23",
		.port_names[7] = "p24",
		.port_names[9] = "dsa",
	},
};

struct dsa_platform_data switch23 = {
	.netdev = &blah,
	.nr_switches = 2,
	.sw = switches,
	.rtable = {
		{ -1,  9 },
		{  9, -1 },
	},
};

Or something along those lines.

Thoughts?




diff --git a/include/net/dsa.h b/include/net/dsa.h
index 52e97bf..8bbf5ba 100644
--- a/include/net/dsa.h
+++ b/include/net/dsa.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * include/net/dsa.h - Driver for Distributed Switch Architecture switch chips
- * Copyright (c) 2008 Marvell Semiconductor
+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Marvell Semiconductor
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -13,21 +13,44 @@
 
 #define DSA_MAX_PORTS	12
 
+struct dsa_switch_data {
+	/*
+	 * How to access the switch configuration registers.
+	 */
+	struct device	*mii_bus;
+	int		sw_addr;
+
+	/*
+	 * The names of the switch's ports.  Use "cpu" to
+	 * designate the switch port that the cpu is connected to,
+	 * "dsa" to indicate that this port is a DSA link to
+	 * another switch, NULL to indicate the port is unused,
+	 * or any other string to indicate this is a physical port.
+	 */
+	char		*port_names[DSA_MAX_PORTS];
+};
+
 struct dsa_platform_data {
 	/*
 	 * Reference to a Linux network interface that connects
-	 * to the switch chip.
+	 * to one of the switch chips in the tree.
 	 */
 	struct device	*netdev;
 
 	/*
-	 * How to access the switch configuration registers, and
-	 * the names of the switch ports (use "cpu" to designate
-	 * the switch port that the cpu is connected to).
+	 * Info structs describing each of the switch chips
+	 * connected via this network interface.
 	 */
-	struct device	*mii_bus;
-	int		sw_addr;
-	char		*port_names[DSA_MAX_PORTS];
+	int		nr_switches;
+	struct dsa_switch_data *sw;
+
+	/*
+	 * A nr_switches * nr_switches array where element [a][b]
+	 * indicates which port on switch a should be used to send
+	 * packets to that are destined for switch b.  Can be NULL
+	 * if there is only one switch chip.
+	 */
+	u8		**rtable;
 };
 
 extern bool dsa_uses_dsa_tags(void *dsa_ptr);
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