The decoupling of FQ portal allocation is required as a
pre-requisite to support Rx interrupts as we need to have
event FD's at portal allocation i.e. before the
initialization of the Frame Queues.
This change will help us get the event fd once the portals
have been allocated for static FQ's.
Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Thread affinity is already taken care by DPDK. Remove them from bus.
Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
This patch also align few RX offload support to right category.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@nxp.com>
The black list of dpaa_sec devices fails.
EAL: failed to parse device "dpaa:dpaa_sec-1"
This patch address following issues:
- bus usages dpaa-sec while the driver usage dpaa_sec
- bus usages numbers from 0 to MAX_SEC - while driver
probe usages sec number form max-fman_device +1
Fixes: 6e0752205b ("bus/dpaa: support device blacklisting")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@nxp.com>
Minor code cleanup. BNXT_GET_DEFAULT_VNIC macro returns the default VNIC
of the function and fixed code to use the macro.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Driver will accelerate only outer/S-VLAN insertion by turning on
the appropriate bits in the Tx Buffer Descriptor when the packet
arrives for transmission.
The TPID to be used for this S-VLAN is conveyed by the vlan_tpid_set
dev_op which will terminate in the driver.
In the Rx path, driver will continue providing the stripped vlan tag
in the mbuf's vlan tci field. This would be the outermost vlan tag
in a double-tagged packet or the vlan tag for a single vlan tagged pkt.
Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
The secondary process should not modify device state when
init is called. The pci device information pointed to by
dev_private pointer is not correct in secondary process.
Fixes: b7778e8a1c ("net/bnxt: refactor to properly allocate resources for PF/VF")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Fix Computing of number of used descriptors in an Rx queue.
Fixes: 1b7ceba3e3 ("net/bnxt: support Rx queue count")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Rahul Gupta <rahul.gupta@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Check input argument "rxq" in bnxt_rx_queue_release_mbufs(), to be sure
variable is not NULL before accessing it.
Fixes: 9b63c6fd70 ("net/bnxt: support Rx/Tx queue start/stop")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Since bnxt_enable_int() is called at start time,
invoke bnxt_disable_int() during stop only.
Remove it from device uninit function.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
HWRM_CHECK_RESULT_SILENT() returns if the HWRM command fails.
There is no need to check the return value after this call.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
Driver should not change "deferred_start" state of the tx queues.
It should get the state in queue_setup_op() and use that value.
Since the deferred start state was being used in the packet transmit
functions to determine whether the queue has been stopped already,
introduced a per-txq flag to track queue stopped/started state.
Fixes: 9b63c6fd70 ("net/bnxt: support Rx/Tx queue start/stop")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
On Wh+, number of L2 context supported by FW is the sum of number of
EM flow count and number of L2 context count returned in HWRM_FUNC_QCFG.
This is not true for Thor. Restrict this only for Whitney for now.
Fixes: ff9c0ca47e ("net/bnxt: save the number of EM flow count")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
Link auto negotiation for 40G is not supported by Thor.
Hence speed needs to be forced and autoneg disabled to configure 40G
speed.
Fixes: f8168ca0e6 ("net/bnxt: support thor controller")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
When updating the link because of an async link notification
there is no need to set wait_for_completion. At this point
the link related information should be available without need to poll.
Use rte_eth_linkstatus_set instead of memcpy to ensure atomicity
while updating the link status.
We force the physical link down as a part of device stop.
But we are not waiting there enough and handling the async notification
before exiting. It just sits in the default CQ till we do a device
start.
Fix it by calling the CQ handler in device stop.
Fixes: 7bc8e9a227 ("net/bnxt: support async link notification")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
We are not subscribing to link speed change notification.
This patch addresses that.
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Rahul Gupta <rahul.gupta@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Driver should not change "deferred_start" state of the rx queues.
It should get the state in queue_setup_op() and use that value.
Since the deferred start state was being used in the packet receive
functions to determine whether a stopped rx ring should be polled,
introduced a per-rxq flag to track queue stopped/started state.
Fixes: 9b63c6fd70 ("net/bnxt: support Rx/Tx queue start/stop")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Maximum frame length supported by hw is 9600 bytes.
When user launches testpmd with --mbuf-size=9729,
we are posting buffer descriptors of size 9601 to the ring.
This was causing packets getting discarded.
Fixes: daef48efe5 ("net/bnxt: support set MTU")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
When user creates a flow similar to an existing flow with just the
destination queue change, we delete the old filter and allocate a new
one with this destination queue change. We were also allocating a new L2
filter matching the same destination mac resulting in 2 L2 filters for the
same destination mac.
This was causing any flow matching the destination mac to be steered to
this queue instead of the default queue.
Fixed it by deleting this stale L2 filter.
Fixes: 5c1171c972 ("net/bnxt: refactor filter/flow")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
The doorbell ringing operation requires a rte_io_mb immediately to make
the command complete and visible to the device before reading the
response, otherwise it may read stale or invalid responses.
Fixes: ca241d9a09 ("net/bnxt: use I/O device memory read/write API")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
To read the doorbell response, which is held in the host CIO memory,
rte_cio_rmb is sufficient.
Fixes: 804e746c7b ("net/bnxt: add hardware resource manager init code")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
As there is an inclusive rte_io_wmb within the following rte_write32()
API who rings the doorbell, this makes the above rte_wmb unnecessary and
remove it.
Fixes: 1cd45aeb32 ("net/bnxt: support Stratus VF device")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
To guarantee the orderings of successive stores to CIO and MMIO memory,
a lighter weight rte_io_wmb [1] can be used instead of rte_wmb, and since
the ICE_PCI_REG_WRITE API already has an inclusive rte_io_wmb, this
explicit call can even be saved.
[1] http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/
rte_atomic.h#n98
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
To guarantee the orderings of successive stores to CIO and MMIO memory,
a lighter weight rte_io_wmb [1] can be used instead of rte_wmb, and since
the I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE API already has an inclusive rte_io_wmb, this
explicit call can be even saved.
[1] http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/
rte_atomic.h#n98
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
On Thor, direct access to PTP registers (via GRC) is not supported.
Driver must use HWRM to access the timestamp information.
Vectorized Rx/Tx cannot be enabled if RTE_LIBRTE_IEEE1588=y.
Remove the PTP flags handling code from the vector Rx path.
Add support to read tx timestamp value and the time from the
timesync clock.
On Thor, Rx timestamps are provided directly in the Rx completion
records to the driver. Only 32 bits of the timestamp is present in
the completion. Driver needs to read the current 48 bit free running
timer using the HWRM_PORT_TS_QUERY command and combine the upper
16 bits from the HWRM response with the lower 32 bits in the
Rx completion to produce the 48 bit timestamp for the Rx packet.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
use BIT macro instead of bit fields.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Commit "bd0a14c99f65" enables the creation of a dedicated completion
ring for asynchronous event handling instead of handling these
events on a receive completion ring on non Stingray Platforms.
This causes a segfault due to NULL pointer dereference in
bnxt_alloc_async_cp_ring() on stingray. Fix this by checking the
pointer validity before accessing it.
Fixes: bd0a14c99f ("net/bnxt: use dedicated CPR for async events")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Rahul Gupta <rahul.gupta@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
When IOMMU is available, EAL picks IOVA as VA as the default IOVA mode.
This causes the bnxt driver to log warning messages saying
"Memzone physical address same as virtual." and
"Using rte_mem_virt2iova()" during load.
Reduce the verbosity of logs to DEBUG. Reduced couple of other
logs level to DEBUG as well.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
FW sets HWRM_FUNC_QCAPS_OUTPUT_FLAGS_ERR_RECOVER_RELOAD
in HWRM_FUNC_QCAPS command, if device requires to invoke
fastboot FW during FW reset.
Driver has to poll for shutdown bit in fw_status register:
1. in case of hot fw upgrade, this bit will be set after all
function drivers unregistered with fw.
2. in case of fw initiated error recovery, this bit will be
set after fw has collected the core dump
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Rahul Gupta <rahul.gupta@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Added code to perform FW_RESET. When the driver detects error in FW,
it has to initiate the recovery by resetting the cores. FW advertise
the method to do a core reset, reset register offsets and values
to perform reset in response of HWRM_ERROR_RECOVERY_QCFG command.
There are 2 ways to recover from the error.
1. Master function issues core resets to recover from error.
2. Master function detects chimp dead condition and notify the Kong
processor about the chimp dead case through FW_RESET HWRM command.
Kong Processor send an RESET_NOTIFY async event with
REASON_CODE_FW_EXCEPTION_FATAL to all the PF’s/VF’s that
chimp is dead and it is going to reset the chimp.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Periodically poll the FW heartbeat register and FW recovery counter
registers to check the FW health. Polling frequency will be
advertised by the FW in HWRM_ERROR_RECOVERY_QCFG response.
Schedule the task upon receiving the async event from FW.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
1. Advertise HWRM_FUNC_DRV_RGTR_INPUT_FLAGS_ERROR_RECOVERY_SUPPORT flag
in the FUNC_DRV_RGTR command.
2. request for the async event ASYNC_EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_ERROR_RECOVERY
in the FUNC_DRV_RGTR command.
3. handle the async event EVENT_ID_ERROR_RECOVERY from FW.
Error recovery support will be used by firmware only if all the driver
instances support error recovery process.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
HWRM_ERROR_RECOVERY_QCFG command returns the FW status registers offset
for periodic firmware health check monitoring. Map them to GRC window 2.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
In Driver initiated error recovery process, driver has to know about
the registers offset and values to initiate FW reset. The HWRM command
HWRM_ERROR_RECOVERY_QCFG is used to obtain all the registers and values
required to initiate FW reset. This command response includes
FW heart_beat register, health status register, Error counter register,
register offsets and values to do chip reset if firmware crashes and
becomes unresponsive.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
When firmware hit some unrecoverable error conditions, firmware initiate
the recovery by sending an async event EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_RESET_NOTIFY
with data1 set to RESET_NOTIFY_EVENT_DATA1_REASON_CODE_FW_EXCEPTION_FATAL
to all host drivers and will reset the chip.
The recovery procedure is same sequence as the one for hot FW upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Use latest firmware API to inform firmware about IF state changes.
Firmware has the option to clean up resources during IF down and
to require the driver to reserve resources again during IF up.
During port start, HWRM_FUNC_DRV_IF_CHANGE command response
flags indicates that firmware has reset. Add logic to re-probe
the firmware and re-setup resources.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
When the FW upgrade is initiated the current instance
of FW issues a HWRM_ASYNC_EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_RESET_NOTIFY
async notification to the driver. On receiving this notification,
the PMD shall quiesce itself and poll on the HWRM_VER_GET FW
command at regular intervals.
Once the VER_GET command succeeds, the driver should go through
the rediscovery process and re-initialize the device.
Also register with FW for the reset notify async event.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Refactor init and uninit functions so that the driver can fail
the eth_dev_ops callbacks and accessing Tx and Rx queues
when device is in reset or in error state.
Transmit and receive queues are freed during reset cleanup and
reallocated during recovery. So we block all data path handling
in this state. The eth_dev dev_started field is updated depending
on the status of the device.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Santoshkumar Karanappa Rastapur <santosh.rastapur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
This patch adds new FW reset HWRM command.
Code using this command will be added in future patch.
Signed-off-by: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
The devices backed by mlx5 PMD might share the same multiport
Infiniband device context. It regards representors and slaves
of bonding device. These ports are spawned with devargs.
These patch check whether configuration deduced from these
devargs is compatible with configurations if devices
sharing the same context. It prevents the incorrect
whitelists, like:
-w 82:00.0,representor=0,dv_flow_en=1
-w 82:00.0,representor=1,dv_flow_en=0
The representors with indices [0-1] are supposed to spawned
over the same PCi device, but there is dv_flow_en parameter
mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
With bonding configuration multiple PFs may represent the
single switching device with multiple ports as representors.
To distinguish representors belonging to different PFs we
should generated unique port ID. It is proposed to use
the PF index in bonding configuration to generate this
unique port IDs.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
With bonding configurations the switch domain may be shared
between multiple PCI devices, we should search the switch
sibling devices within the entire set of present ethernet
devices backed by the mlx5 PMD.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
There new kernel/rdma_core [1] supports matching on metadata
register instead of vport field to provide operations over
VF LAG bonding configurations. This patch provides correct
translations for flow matchers and destination port actions
if united E-Switch (for VF LAG) is configured and/or new vport
matching mode is engaged.
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1122170/
"Mellanox, mlx5 vport metadata matching"
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
The routine mlx5_port_to_eswitch_info() is elaborated
to two ones (get E-Switch port parameters by port and
by device pointer) and simplified to returning structure
containing all parameters instead of copying.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
There new kernel/rdma_core [1] supports matching on metadata
register instead of vport field to provide operations over
VF LAG bonding configurations. The patch retrieves parameters
and information about the way is engaged to match vport on E-Switch.
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1122170/
"Mellanox, mlx5 vport metadata matching"
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
If bonding Infiniband device is found the unified E-Switch
is supposed and the extra rdma-core/kernel support is needed
to retrieve vport indices. The patch introduces this feature
defines, bonding support check is added to probe routine.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
If device is VF LAG bonding one the port name includes
the bonding Infiniband device name and looks like:
82:00.0_mlx5_bond_0 - for master device port PF0
82:00.1_mlx5_bond_0_representor_5 - for representor
VF5 over PF1
where bonding Infiniband device mlx5_bond_0 controls
the 82:00.0 as PF0 and 82:00.1 as PF1 PCI functions.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
The Mellanox NICs starting from ConnectX-5 support LAG over
NIC ports internally, implemented by the NIC firmware and hardware.
The multiport NIC presents multiple physical PCI functions (PF),
with SR-IOV multiple virtual PCI functions (VFs) might be presented.
With switchdev mode the VF representors are engaged and PFs and their
VFs are connected by internal E-Switch feature. Each PF and related VFs
have dedicated E-Switch and belong to dedicated switch domain.
If NIC ports are combined to support NIC the kernel drivers introduce
the single unified Infiniband multiport devices, and all only one
unified E-Switch with single switch domain combines master PF
all all VFs. No extra DPDK bonding device is needed.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
At device probing the device list to spawn was allocated
as dynamic size local variable. It was no possible to have
one unified exit point from routine due to compiler warnings.
This patch allocates the spawn device list directly with
rte_zmalloc() and it is possible to goto to unified exit
label from anywhere of the routine.
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
