Documentation: networking: dsa: mention integration with devlink
Add a short summary of the devlink features supported by the DSA core. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- MDIO/PHY library: ``drivers/net/phy/phy.c``, ``mdio_bus.c``
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- Switchdev:``net/switchdev/*``
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- Device Tree for various of_* functions
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- Devlink: ``net/core/devlink.c``
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MDIO/PHY library
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@ -455,6 +456,36 @@ more specifically with its VLAN filtering portion when configuring VLANs on top
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of per-port slave network devices. As of today, the only SWITCHDEV objects
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supported by DSA are the FDB and VLAN objects.
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Devlink
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-------
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DSA registers one devlink device per physical switch in the fabric.
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For each devlink device, every physical port (i.e. user ports, CPU ports, DSA
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links or unused ports) is exposed as a devlink port.
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DSA drivers can make use of the following devlink features:
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- Regions: debugging feature which allows user space to dump driver-defined
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areas of hardware information in a low-level, binary format. Both global
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regions as well as per-port regions are supported. It is possible to export
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devlink regions even for pieces of data that are already exposed in some way
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to the standard iproute2 user space programs (ip-link, bridge), like address
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tables and VLAN tables. For example, this might be useful if the tables
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contain additional hardware-specific details which are not visible through
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the iproute2 abstraction, or it might be useful to inspect these tables on
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the non-user ports too, which are invisible to iproute2 because no network
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interface is registered for them.
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- Params: a feature which enables user to configure certain low-level tunable
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knobs pertaining to the device. Drivers may implement applicable generic
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devlink params, or may add new device-specific devlink params.
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- Resources: a monitoring feature which enables users to see the degree of
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utilization of certain hardware tables in the device, such as FDB, VLAN, etc.
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- Shared buffers: a QoS feature for adjusting and partitioning memory and frame
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reservations per port and per traffic class, in the ingress and egress
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directions, such that low-priority bulk traffic does not impede the
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processing of high-priority critical traffic.
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For more details, consult ``Documentation/networking/devlink/``.
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Device Tree
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