netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] nfp: offload LAG for tc flower egress

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Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 20:04:56 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] nfp: offload LAG for tc flower egress

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:22 AM, Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This series from John adds bond offload to the nfp driver.  Patch 5
> exposes the hash type for NETDEV_LAG_TX_TYPE_HASH to make sure nfp
> hashing matches that of the software LAG.  This may be unnecessarily
> conservative, let's see what LAG maintainers think :)
>
> John says:
>
> This patchset sets up the infrastructure and offloads output actions for
> when a TC flower rule attempts to egress a packet to a LAG port.
>
> Firstly it adds some of the infrastructure required to the flower app and
> to the nfp core. This includes the ability to change the MAC address of a
> repr, a function for combining lookup and write to a FW symbol, and the
> addition of private data to a repr on a per app basis.
>
> Patch 6 continues by implementing notifiers that track Linux bonds and
> communicates to the FW those which enslave reprs, along with the current
> state of reprs within the bond.
>
> Patch 7 ensures bonds are synchronised with FW by receiving and acting
> upon cmsgs sent to the kernel. These may request that a bond message is
> retransmitted when FW can process it, or may request a full sync of the
> bonds defined in the kernel.
>
> Patch 8 offloads a flower action when that action requires egressing to a
> pre-defined Linux bond.

Does this apply also to non-uplink representors? if yes, what is the use case?

We are looking on supporting uplink lag in sriov switchdev scheme - we refer to
it as "vf lag" -- b/c the netdev and rdma devices seen by the VF are actually
subject to HA and/or LAG - I wasn't sure if/how you limit this series
to uplink reprs