Documentation: networking: dsa: add paragraph for the LAG offload
Add a short summary of the methods that a driver writer must implement for offloading a link aggregation group, and what is still missing. Cc: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
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the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and MDB info.
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Link aggregation
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----------------
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Link aggregation is implemented in the Linux networking stack by the bonding
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and team drivers, which are modeled as virtual, stackable network interfaces.
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DSA is capable of offloading a link aggregation group (LAG) to hardware that
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supports the feature, and supports bridging between physical ports and LAGs,
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as well as between LAGs. A bonding/team interface which holds multiple physical
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ports constitutes a logical port, although DSA has no explicit concept of a
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logical port at the moment. Due to this, events where a LAG joins/leaves a
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bridge are treated as if all individual physical ports that are members of that
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LAG join/leave the bridge. Switchdev port attributes (VLAN filtering, STP
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state, etc) and objects (VLANs, MDB entries) offloaded to a LAG as bridge port
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are treated similarly: DSA offloads the same switchdev object / port attribute
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on all members of the LAG. Static bridge FDB entries on a LAG are not yet
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supported, since the DSA driver API does not have the concept of a logical port
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ID.
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- ``port_lag_join``: function invoked when a given switch port is added to a
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LAG. The driver may return ``-EOPNOTSUPP``, and in this case, DSA will fall
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back to a software implementation where all traffic from this port is sent to
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the CPU.
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- ``port_lag_leave``: function invoked when a given switch port leaves a LAG
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and returns to operation as a standalone port.
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- ``port_lag_change``: function invoked when the link state of any member of
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the LAG changes, and the hashing function needs rebalancing to only make use
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of the subset of physical LAG member ports that are up.
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Drivers that benefit from having an ID associated with each offloaded LAG
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can optionally populate ``ds->num_lag_ids`` from the ``dsa_switch_ops::setup``
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method. The LAG ID associated with a bonding/team interface can then be
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retrieved by a DSA switch driver using the ``dsa_lag_id`` function.
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TODO
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