07 Oct, 2011
2 commits
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Add DCBX mode to event notifiers so listeners can learn
currently enabled mode.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Use ifindex instead of ifname in the DCB app ring. This makes for a smaller
data structure and faster comparisons. It also avoids possible issues when
a net device is renamed.Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
06 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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This patch add an unsolicited notification of the DCBX negotiated
parameters for the CEE flavor of the DCBX protocol. The notification
message is identical to the aggregated CEE get operation and holds all
the pertinent local and peer information. The notification routine is
exported so it can be invoked by drivers supporting an embedded DCBX
stack.Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
22 Jun, 2011
5 commits
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Incorrect return type on dcb_setapp() this routine
returns negative error codes. All call sites of
dcb_setapp() assign the return value to an int already
so no need to update drivers.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
With multiple APP entries per selector and protocol drivers
or stacks may want to pick a specific value or stripe traffic
across many priorities. Also if an APP entry in use is
deleted the stack/driver may want to choose from the existing
APP entries.To facilitate this and avoid having duplicate code to walk
the APP ring provide a routine dcb_ieee_getapp_mask() to
return a u8 bitmask of all priorities set for the specified
selector and protocol. This routine and bitmask is a helper
for DCB kernel users.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Now that we allow multiple IEEE App entries we need a way
to remove specific entries. To do this add the ieee_dcb_delapp()
routine.Additionaly drivers may need to remove the APP entry from
their firmware tables. Add dcb ops routine to handle this.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
This adds a setapp routine for IEEE802.1Qaz encoded APP data types.
The IEEE 802.1Qaz spec encodes the priority bits differently and
allows for multiple APP data entries of the same selector and
protocol. Trying to force these to use the same set routines was
becoming tedious. Furthermore, userspace could probably enforce
the correct semantics, but expecting drivers to do this seems
error prone in the firmware case.For these reasons add ieee_dcb_setapp() that understands the
IEEE 802.1Qaz encoded form.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Now that dcbnl is being used in many cases by more
than a single agent it is beneficial to be notified
when some entity either driver or user space has
changed the DCB attributes.Today applications either end up polling the interface
or relying on a user space database to maintain the DCB
state and post events. Polling is a poor solution for
obvious reasons. And relying on a user space database
has its own downside. Namely it has created strange
boot dependencies requiring the database be populated
before any applications dependent on DCB attributes
starts or the application goes into a polling loop.
Populating the database requires negotiating link
setting with the peer and can take anywhere from less
than a second up to a few seconds depending on the switch
implementation.Perhaps more importantly if another application or an
embedded agent sets a DCB link attribute the database
has no way of knowing other than polling the kernel.
This prevents applications from responding quickly to
changes in link events which at least in the FCoE case
and probably any other protocols expecting a lossless
link may result in IO errors.By adding a multicast group for DCB we have clean way
to disseminate kernel DCB link attributes up to user
space. Avoiding the need for user space to maintain
a coherant database and disperse events that potentially
do not reflect the current link state.Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
03 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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This patch adds the support for retrieving the remote or peer DCBX
configuration via dcbnl for embedded DCBX stacks supporting the CEE DCBX
standard.Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
These 2 patches add the support for retrieving the remote or peer DCBX
configuration via dcbnl for embedded DCBX stacks. The peer configuration
is part of the DCBX MIB and is useful for debugging and diagnostics of
the overall DCB configuration. The first patch add this support for IEEE
802.1Qaz standard the second patch add the same support for the older
CEE standard. Diff for v2 - the peer-app-info is CEE specific.Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
01 Jan, 2011
4 commits
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Adding a pair of set-get routines to dcbnl for setting the negotiation
flags of the various DCB features. Conforms to the CEE flavor of DCBX
The user sets these flags (enable, advertise, willing) for each feature
to be used by the DCBX engine. The 'get' routine returns which of the
features is enabled after the negotiation.This patch is dependent on the following patches:
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] dcbnl: add support for ieee8021Qaz attributes
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] dcbnl: add appliction tlv handlers
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] net_dcb: add application notifiersSigned-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
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Adding an optional DCBX capability and a pair for get-set routines for
setting the device DCBX mode. The DCBX capability is a bit field of
supported attributes. The user is expected to set the DCBX mode with a
subset of the advertised attributes.This patch is dependent on the following patches:
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] dcbnl: add support for ieee8021Qaz attributes
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] dcbnl: add appliction tlv handlers
[net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] net_dcb: add application notifiersSigned-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
Acked-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
This patch adds application tlv handlers. Networking stacks
may use the application priority to set the skb priority of
their stack using the negoatiated dcbx priority.This patch provides the dcb_{get|set}app() routines for the
stack to query these parameters. Notice lower layer drivers
can use the dcbnl_ops routines if additional handling is
needed. Perhaps in the firmware case for exampleSigned-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
The IEEE8021Qaz is the IEEE standard version of CEE. The
standard has had enough significant changes from the CEE
version that many of the CEE attributes have no meaning
in the new spec or do not easily map to IEEE standards.Rather then attempt to create a complicated mapping
between CEE and IEEE standards this patch adds a nested
IEEE attribute to the list of DCB attributes. The policy
is,[DCB_ATTR_IFNAME]
[DCB_ATTR_STATE]
...
[DCB_ATTR_IEEE]
[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_ETS]
[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_PFC]
[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE]
[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP]
...The following dcbnl_rtnl_ops routines were added to handle
the IEEE standard,int (*ieee_getets) (struct net_device *, struct ieee_ets *);
int (*ieee_setets) (struct net_device *, struct ieee_ets *);
int (*ieee_getpfc) (struct net_device *, struct ieee_pfc *);
int (*ieee_setpfc) (struct net_device *, struct ieee_pfc *);
int (*ieee_getapp) (struct net_device *, struct dcb_app *);
int (*ieee_setapp) (struct net_device *, struct dcb_app *);Signed-off-by: John Fastabend
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
01 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Adds support of dcbnl setapp/getapp to dcbnl_rtnl_ops in netdev to allow
LLDs to implement their corresponding dcbnl setapp/getapp ops to support
the IEEE 802.1Q DCBX setapp/getapp commands.Signed-off-by: Yi Zou
Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
22 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Data Center Bridging (DCB) had no way to know if setstate had failed in the
driver. This patch enables dcb netlink code to handle the status for the DCB
setstate interface. Likewise it allows the driver to return a failed status
if MSI-X isn't enabled.Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore
Signed-off-by: Eric W Multanen
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
21 Nov, 2008
5 commits
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Adds an interface to configure the Backward Congestion Notification
(BCN) feature. In a BCN capabale network, congestion notifications
from congested points out in the network can cause the end station
limit the rate of a given traffic flow.Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Adds a netlink interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB) to get and set
the enable state of the Priority Flow Control (PFC) feature.
Primarily, this is a way to turn off PFC in the driver while DCB
remains enabled.Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Adds interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB) to query (and set if
supported) the number of traffic classes currently supported by the
device for the two (DCB) features: priority groups (PG) and priority
flow control (PFC).Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Adds to the netlink interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB), allowing
the DCB capabilities supported by a device to be queried.Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe
driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the
kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) -
which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic
based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) -
which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at
granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x).Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
