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authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>2021-06-11 22:01:24 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-06-11 12:45:38 -0700
commit4e50025129efabb07714c1f27a80526897da374b (patch)
treebef1017e42111f0e3ffc5d6119ea58a677b6aa35 /Documentation/networking
parent6c0de59b3d735f4c8c704dae30db540204b496ec (diff)
net: dsa: generalize overhead for taggers that use both headers and trailers
Some really really weird switches just couldn't decide whether to use a normal or a tail tagger, so they just did both. This creates problems for DSA, because we only have the concept of an 'overhead' which can be applied to the headroom or to the tailroom of the skb (like for example during the central TX reallocation procedure), depending on the value of bool tail_tag, but not to both. We need to generalize DSA to cater for these odd switches by transforming the 'overhead / tail_tag' pair into 'needed_headroom / needed_tailroom'. The DSA master's MTU is increased to account for both. The flow dissector code is modified such that it only calls the DSA adjustment callback if the tagger has a non-zero header length. Taggers are trivially modified to declare either needed_headroom or needed_tailroom, based on the tail_tag value that they currently declare. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index 8688009514cc..20baacf2bc5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -93,14 +93,15 @@ A tagging protocol may tag all packets with switch tags of the same length, or
the tag length might vary (for example packets with PTP timestamps might
require an extended switch tag, or there might be one tag length on TX and a
different one on RX). Either way, the tagging protocol driver must populate the
-``struct dsa_device_ops::overhead`` with the length in octets of the longest
-switch frame header. The DSA framework will automatically adjust the MTU of the
-master interface to accomodate for this extra size in order for DSA user ports
-to support the standard MTU (L2 payload length) of 1500 octets. The ``overhead``
-is also used to request from the network stack, on a best-effort basis, the
-allocation of packets with a ``needed_headroom`` or ``needed_tailroom``
-sufficient such that the act of pushing the switch tag on transmission of a
-packet does not cause it to reallocate due to lack of memory.
+``struct dsa_device_ops::needed_headroom`` and/or ``struct dsa_device_ops::needed_tailroom``
+with the length in octets of the longest switch frame header/trailer. The DSA
+framework will automatically adjust the MTU of the master interface to
+accommodate for this extra size in order for DSA user ports to support the
+standard MTU (L2 payload length) of 1500 octets. The ``needed_headroom`` and
+``needed_tailroom`` properties are also used to request from the network stack,
+on a best-effort basis, the allocation of packets with enough extra space such
+that the act of pushing the switch tag on transmission of a packet does not
+cause it to reallocate due to lack of memory.
Even though applications are not expected to parse DSA-specific frame headers,
the format on the wire of the tagging protocol represents an Application Binary
@@ -169,8 +170,8 @@ The job of this method is to prepare the skb in a way that the switch will
understand what egress port the packet is for (and not deliver it towards other
ports). Typically this is fulfilled by pushing a frame header. Checking for
insufficient size in the skb headroom or tailroom is unnecessary provided that
-the ``overhead`` and ``tail_tag`` properties were filled out properly, because
-DSA ensures there is enough space before calling this method.
+the ``needed_headroom`` and ``needed_tailroom`` properties were filled out
+properly, because DSA ensures there is enough space before calling this method.
The reception of a packet goes through the tagger's ``rcv`` function. The
passed ``struct sk_buff *skb`` has ``skb->data`` pointing at