netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] mlxsw: More Spectrum-2 preparations

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Date:   Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:26:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     idosch@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] mlxsw: More Spectrum-2 preparations

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Date: Sun,  8 Jul 2018 23:51:15 +0300

> This is the second and last set of preparations towards initial
> Spectrum-2 support in mlxsw. It mainly re-arranges parts of the code
> that need to work with both ASICs, but somewhat differ.
> 
> The first three patches allow different ASICs to register different set
> of operations for KVD linear (KVDL) management. In Spectrum-2 there is
> no linear memory and instead entries that reside there in Spectrum
> (e.g., nexthops) are hashed and inserted to the hash-based KVD memory.
> 
> The fourth patch does a similar restructuring in the low-level multicast
> router code. This is necessary because multicast routing is implemented
> using regular circuit TCAM (C-TCAM) in Spectrum, whereas Spectrum-2 uses
> an algorithmic TCAM (A-TCAM).
> 
> Next six patches prepare the ACL code for the introduction of A-TCAM in
> follow-up patch sets.
> 
> Last two patches allow different ASICs to require different firmware
> versions and add two resources that need to be queried from firmware by
> Spectrum-2 specific code.

Series applied, thank you.