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Similarly to the offload_fwd_mark field, the offload_mr_fwd_mark field is used to allow partial offloading of MFC multicast routes. Switchdev drivers can offload MFC multicast routes to the hardware by registering to the FIB notification chain. When one of the route output interfaces is not offload-able, i.e. has different parent ID, the route cannot be fully offloaded by the hardware. Examples to non-offload-able devices are a management NIC, dummy device, pimreg device, etc. Similar problem exists in the bridge module, as one bridge can hold interfaces with different parent IDs. At the bridge, the problem is solved by the offload_fwd_mark skb field. Currently, when a route cannot go through full offload, the only solution for a switchdev driver is not to offload it at all and let the packet go through slow path. Using the offload_mr_fwd_mark field, a driver can indicate that a packet was already forwarded by hardware to all the devices with the same parent ID as the input device. Further patches in this patch-set are going to enhance ipmr to skip multicast forwarding to devices with the same parent ID if a packets is marked with that field. The reason why the already existing "offload_fwd_mark" bit cannot be used is that a switchdev driver would want to make the distinction between a packet that has already gone through L2 forwarding but did not go through multicast forwarding, and a packet that has already gone through both L2 and multicast forwarding. For example: when a packet is ingressing from a switchport enslaved to a bridge, which is configured with multicast forwarding, the following scenarios are possible: - The packet can be trapped to the CPU due to exception while multicast forwarding (for example, MTU error). In that case, it had already gone through L2 forwarding in the hardware, thus A switchdev driver would want to set the skb->offload_fwd_mark and not the skb->offload_mr_fwd_mark. - The packet can also be trapped due to a pimreg/dummy device used as one of the output interfaces. In that case, it can go through both L2 and (partial) multicast forwarding inside the hardware, thus a switchdev driver would want to set both the skb->offload_fwd_mark and skb->offload_mr_fwd_mark. Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellaox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.