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In Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) mode, the packet skips the system internal virtual switch and forwards to external network switch. In Mellanox HCA case, the virtual switch is the HCA's Eswitch. To support this, an new FDB flow table are created with level 0 and linked to the existing FDB flow table in legacy mode. By default, VEPA is turned off and this FDB flow table is empty. When VEPA is turned on, two rules are created. One rule to forward on uplink vport traffic to the legacy FDB. The other rule forward all other traffic to uplink vport. Other design alternatives were not chosen as explained below: 1. Create a forward rule in ACL flow table (most efficient design). This approach is the not chosen because firmware does not support forward rule to uplink vport (0xffff) for ACL flow table. 2. Add additional source port criteria in all the FDB rules to make the FDB rules to be received rules only. This approach is not chosen because it is not efficient as there can many rules in the FDB and VEPA mode cannot be controlled per vport. 3. Add a highest prioirty flow group in the existing legacy FDB Flow Table instead of a new flow table. This approoach does not work because the new flow group has the same match criteria as the promiscuous flow group and mlx5_add_flow_rules does not allow specifying flow group. Signed-off-by: Huy Nguyen <huyn@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.