Aligning Mellanox SPDX copyrights to a single format.
In addition replace to SPDX licence files which were missed.
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Functions like nl_recev and nl_send name clash functions in the
libnl library (https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/).
All functions declared in tap_netlink.h were decorated with tap_
for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
As tap is a virtual device, there's no physical way a link can be cut.
However, it has an associated kernel netdevice and possibly a remote
netdevice too. These netdevices link status may change outside of the
DPDK scope, through an external command such as:
ip link set dev tapX down
This commit implements link status notification through netlink.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Each kernel netdevice may have queueing disciplines set for it, which
determine how to handle the packet (mostly on egress). That's part of
the TC (Traffic Control) mechanism.
Through TC, it is possible to set filter rules that match specific
packets, and act according to what is in the rule. This is a perfect
candidate to implement the flow API for the tap PMD, as it has an
associated kernel netdevice automatically.
Each flow API rule will be translated into its TC counterpart.
To leverage TC, it is necessary to communicate with the kernel using
netlink. This patch introduces a library to help that communication.
Inside netlink.c, functions are generic for any netlink messaging.
Inside tcmsgs.c, functions are specific to deal with TC rules.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
