From patchwork Mon Nov 30 16:41:19 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Parav Pandit X-Patchwork-Id: 11941001 X-Patchwork-Delegate: kuba@kernel.org Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-20.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD8DC63777 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A001F2074A for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=nvidia.com header.i=@nvidia.com header.b="NVFL9Bev" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728944AbgK3QmZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:42:25 -0500 Received: from hqnvemgate26.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.65]:16618 "EHLO hqnvemgate26.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727154AbgK3QmZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:42:25 -0500 Received: from hqmail.nvidia.com (Not Verified[216.228.121.13]) by hqnvemgate26.nvidia.com (using TLS: TLSv1.2, AES256-SHA) id ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:41:48 -0800 Received: from sw-mtx-036.mtx.labs.mlnx (10.124.1.5) by HQMAIL107.nvidia.com (172.20.187.13) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1473.3; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:41:44 +0000 From: Parav Pandit To: , , CC: Parav Pandit , Jiri Pirko Subject: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Add devlink port documentation Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:41:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20201130164119.571362-1-parav@nvidia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.26.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.124.1.5] X-ClientProxiedBy: HQMAIL101.nvidia.com (172.20.187.10) To HQMAIL107.nvidia.com (172.20.187.13) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nvidia.com; s=n1; t=1606754508; bh=CdqsQLCkKYKSUYCcL+zEYESLx2DeBP4R80mY1PA0qls=; h=From:To:CC:Subject:Date:Message-ID:X-Mailer:MIME-Version: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:X-Originating-IP: X-ClientProxiedBy; b=NVFL9BevclG9vvbsTuG5KqJtp2+7yIgvrlabORDGjMmlvUouSwguwZo0eBFujLxo6 GUed0pObX8C34weMryL0QejK3h3tKdJ+u3McPj8XGgYetHu0Tvspk66Q3jzU5ZIB/7 RLOtCi8ZWEpPqhL39SzYieeXDsLlA5wjNhgRktu379qSunRBUdTDIOLnFqyzEvVOQx 32FIY5I95iDGfePI9sPrOO7HNmXaRZzv2oqR+PmfX0Q31ffOuyIiroMJKqod3LI3B1 Lpy91YPDUJjZh7aq37QP2Pz59G4nMz1tuNalvY07BGVnvW7k5lGgP4NjoEn3jgqrwn u5XY7aLV5mY4w== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org X-Patchwork-Delegate: kuba@kernel.org Added documentation for devlink port and port function related commands. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko --- .../networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst | 102 ++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 103 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..966d2ee328a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +Devlink Port +============ + +``devlink-port`` provides capability for a driver to expose various +flavours of ports which exist on device. A devlink port can of an +embedded switch (eswitch) present on the device. + +A devlink port can be of 3 diffferent types. + +.. list-table:: List of devlink port types + :widths: 23 90 + + * - Type + - Description + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_TYPE_ETH`` + - This type is set for a devlink port when a physical link layer of the port + is Ethernet. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_TYPE_IB`` + - This type is set for a devlink port when a physical link layer of the port + is InfiniBand. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_TYPE_AUTO`` + - This type is indicated by the user when user prefers to set the port type + to be automatically detected by the device driver. + +Devlink port can be of few different flavours described below. + +.. list-table:: List of devlink port flavours + :widths: 33 90 + + * - Flavour + - Description + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PHYSICAL`` + - Any kind of port which is physically facing the user. This can be + a eswitch physical port or any other physical port on the device. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_CPU`` + - This indicates a CPU port. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_DSA`` + - This indicates a interconnect port in a distributed switch architecture. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PCI_PF`` + - This indicates an eswitch port representing PCI physical function(PF). + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PCI_VF`` + - This indicates an eswitch port representing PCI virtual function(VF). + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_VIRTUAL`` + - This indicates a virtual port facing the user. + * - ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_VIRTUAL`` + - This indicates an virtual port facing the user. + +A devlink port may be for a controller consist of one or more PCI device(s). +A devlink instance holds ports of two types of controllers. + +(1) controller discovered on same system where eswitch resides +This is the case where PCI PF/VF of a controller and devlink eswitch +instance both are located on a single system. + +(2) controller located on external host system. +This is the case where a controller is located in one system and its +devlink eswitch ports are located in a different system. + +An example view of two controller systems:: + + --------------------------------------------------------- + | | + | --------- --------- ------- ------- | + ----------- | | vf(s) | | sf(s) | |vf(s)| |sf(s)| | + | server | | ------- ----/---- ---/----- ------- ---/--- ---/--- | + | pci rc |=== | pf0 |______/________/ | pf1 |___/_______/ | + | connect | | ------- ------- | + ----------- | | controller_num=1 (no eswitch) | + ------|-------------------------------------------------- + (internal wire) + | + --------------------------------------------------------- + | devlink eswitch ports and reps | + | ----------------------------------------------------- | + | |ctrl-0 | ctrl-0 | ctrl-0 | ctrl-0 | ctrl-0 |ctrl-0 | | + | |pf0 | pf0vfN | pf0sfN | pf1 | pf1vfN |pf1sfN | | + | ----------------------------------------------------- | + | |ctrl-1 | ctrl-1 | ctrl-1 | ctrl-1 | ctrl-1 |ctrl-1 | | + | |pf0 | pf0vfN | pf0sfN | pf1 | pf1vfN |pf1sfN | | + | ----------------------------------------------------- | + | | + | | + | --------- --------- ------- ------- | + | | vf(s) | | sf(s) | |vf(s)| |sf(s)| | + | ------- ----/---- ---/----- ------- ---/--- ---/--- | + | | pf0 |______/________/ | pf1 |___/_______/ | + | ------- ------- | + | | + | local controller_num=0 (eswitch) | + --------------------------------------------------------- + +Port function configuration +=========================== + +When a port flavor is ``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PCI_PF`` or +``DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_PCI_VF``, it represents the port of a PCI function. +A user can configure the port function attributes before enumerating the +function. For example user may set the hardware address of the function +represented by the devlink port. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst index d82874760ae2..aab79667f97b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ general. devlink-info devlink-flash devlink-params + devlink-port devlink-region devlink-resource devlink-reload