net/mlx5_core: Flow counters infrastructure

If a counter has the aging flag set when created, it is added to a list
of counters that will be queried periodically from a workqueue.  query
result and last use timestamp are cached.
add/del counter must be very efficient since thousands of such
operations might be issued in a second.
There is only a single reference to counters without aging, therefore
no need for locks.
But, counters with aging enabled are stored in a list. In order to make
code as lockless as possible, all the list manipulation and access to
hardware is done from a single context - the periodic counters query
thread.

The hardware supports multiple counters per FTE, however currently we
are using one counter for each FTE.

Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirva@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.h
index 1989048ebdfd..aa41a7314691 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.h
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ struct mlx5_flow_root_namespace {
 	struct mutex			chain_lock;
 };
 
+int mlx5_init_fc_stats(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev);
+void mlx5_cleanup_fc_stats(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev);
+
 int mlx5_init_fs(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev);
 void mlx5_cleanup_fs(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev);