Commit 510f9f61 authored by Yevgeny Kliteynik's avatar Yevgeny Kliteynik Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5: HWS, added API and enabled HWS support 



Enabling HWS support in the mlx5 driver:
 - added HWS API header
 - added HWS files in the mlx5 driver makefile
 - added kconfig flag that enables HWS compilation

Reviewed-by: default avatarErez Shitrit <erezsh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
parent 2ca62599

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/kconfig.rst

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|    Build support for software-managed steering in the NIC.



**CONFIG_MLX5_HW_STEERING=(y/n)**



|    Build support for hardware-managed steering in the NIC.



**CONFIG_MLX5_TC_CT=(y/n)**

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig

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	help

	Build support for software-managed steering in the NIC.



config MLX5_HW_STEERING

	bool "Mellanox Technologies hardware-managed steering"

	depends on MLX5_CORE_EN && MLX5_ESWITCH

	default y

	help

	Build support for Hardware-Managed Flow Steering (HMFS) in the NIC.

	HMFS is a new approach to managing steering rules where STEs are

	written to ICM by HW (as opposed to SW in software-managed steering),

	which allows higher rate of rule insertion.



config MLX5_SF

	bool "Mellanox Technologies subfunction device support using auxiliary device"

	depends on MLX5_CORE && MLX5_CORE_EN

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Makefile

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					steering/dr_action.o steering/fs_dr.o \

					steering/dr_definer.o steering/dr_ptrn.o \

					steering/dr_arg.o steering/dr_dbg.o lib/smfs.o



#

# HW Steering

#

mlx5_core-$(CONFIG_MLX5_HW_STEERING) += steering/hws/mlx5hws_cmd.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_context.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_pat_arg.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_buddy.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_pool.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_table.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_action.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_rule.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_matcher.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_send.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_definer.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_bwc.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_debug.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_vport.o \

					steering/hws/mlx5hws_bwc_complex.o





#

# SF device

#

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/Makefile

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

subdir-ccflags-y += -I$(src)/..

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/mlx5hws.h

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