netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 08/10] net: dsa: felix: convert to the new .{set,del}_tag

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Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:02:48 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        Hongbo Wang <hongbo.wang@....com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Po Liu <po.liu@....com>, Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>,
        Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@...ox.ru>,
        Eldar Gasanov <eldargasanov2@...il.com>,
        Andrey L <al@...omtech.com>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 08/10] net: dsa: felix: convert to the new
 .{set,del}_tag_protocol DSA API



On 1/20/2021 6:36 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> In expectation of the new tag_ocelot_8021q tagger implementation, we
> need to be able to do runtime switchover between one tagger and another.
> So we must implement the .set_tag_protocol() and .del_tag_protocol() for
> the current NPI-based tagger.
> 
> We move the felix_npi_port_init function in expectation of the future
> driver configuration necessary for tag_ocelot_8021q: we would like to
> not have the NPI-related bits interspersed with the tag_8021q bits.
> 
> Note that the NPI port is no longer configured when the .setup() method
> concludes - aka when ocelot_init() and ocelot_init_port() are called.
> So we need to set the replicator groups - the PGIDs - again, when the
> NPI port is configured - in .set_tag_protocol(). So we export and call
> ocelot_apply_bridge_fwd_mask().
> 
> The conversion from this:
> 
> 	ocelot_write_rix(ocelot,
> 			 ANA_PGID_PGID_PGID(GENMASK(ocelot->num_phys_ports, 0)),
> 			 ANA_PGID_PGID, PGID_UC);
> 
> to this:
> 
> 	cpu_flood = ANA_PGID_PGID_PGID(BIT(ocelot->num_phys_ports));
> 	ocelot_rmw_rix(ocelot, cpu_flood, cpu_flood, ANA_PGID_PGID, PGID_UC);
> 
> is perhaps non-trivial, but is nonetheless non-functional. The PGID_UC
> (replicator for unknown unicast) is already configured out of hardware
> reset to flood to all ports except ocelot->num_phys_ports (the CPU port
> module). All we change is that we use a read-modify-write to only add
> the CPU port module to the unknown unicast replicator, as opposed to
> doing a full write to the register.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian