| 1cf3299b | 29-Feb-2020 |
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> |
net: dsa: felix: Allow unknown unicast traffic towards the CPU port module
Compared to other DSA switches, in the Ocelot cores, the RX filtering is
a much more important concern.
Firstly, the prima
net: dsa: felix: Allow unknown unicast traffic towards the CPU port module
Compared to other DSA switches, in the Ocelot cores, the RX filtering is
a much more important concern.
Firstly, the primary use case for Ocelot is non-DSA, so there isn't any
secondary Ethernet MAC [the DSA master's one] to implicitly drop frames
having a DMAC we are not interested in. So the switch driver itself
needs to install FDB entries towards the CPU port module (PGID_CPU) for
the MAC address of each switch port, in each VLAN installed on the port.
Every address that is not whitelisted is implicitly dropped. This is in
order to achieve a behavior similar to N standalone net devices.
Secondly, even in the secondary use case of DSA, such as illustrated by
Felix with the NPI port mode, that secondary Ethernet MAC is present,
but its RX filter is bypassed. This is because the DSA tags themselves
are placed before Ethernet, so the DMAC that the switch ports see is
not seen by the DSA master too (since it's shifter to the right).
So RX filtering is pretty important. A good RX filter won't bother the
CPU in case the switch port receives a frame that it's not interested
in, and there exists no other line of defense.
Ocelot is pretty strict when it comes to RX filtering: non-IP multicast
and broadcast traffic is allowed to go to the CPU port module, but
unknown unicast isn't. This means that traffic reception for any other
MAC addresses than the ones configured on each switch port net device
won't work. This includes use cases such as macvlan or bridging with a
non-Ocelot (so-called "foreign") interface. But this seems to be fine
for the scenarios that the Linux system embedded inside an Ocelot switch
is intended for - it is simply not interested in unknown unicast
traffic, as explained in Allan Nielsen's presentation [0].
On the other hand, the Felix DSA switch is integrated in more
general-purpose Linux systems, so it can't afford to drop that sort of
traffic in hardware, even if it will end up doing so later, in software.
Actually, unknown unicast means more for Felix than it does for Ocelot.
Felix doesn't attempt to perform the whitelisting of switch port MAC
addresses towards PGID_CPU at all, mainly because it is too complicated
to be feasible: while the MAC addresses are unique in Ocelot, by default
in DSA all ports are equal and inherited from the DSA master. This adds
into account the question of reference counting MAC addresses (delayed
ocelot_mact_forget), not to mention reference counting for the VLAN IDs
that those MAC addresses are installed in. This reference counting
should be done in the DSA core, and the fact that it wasn't needed so
far is due to the fact that the other DSA switches don't have the DSA
tag placed before Ethernet, so the DSA master is able to whitelist the
MAC addresses in hardware.
So this means that even regular traffic termination on a Felix switch
port happens through flooding (because neither Felix nor Ocelot learn
source MAC addresses from CPU-injected frames).
So far we've explained that whitelisting towards PGID_CPU:
- helps to reduce the likelihood of spamming the CPU with frames it
won't process very far anyway
- is implemented in the ocelot driver
- is sufficient for the ocelot use cases
- is not feasible in DSA
- breaks use cases in DSA, in the current status (whitelisting enabled
but no MAC address whitelisted)
So the proposed patch allows unknown unicast frames to be sent to the
CPU port module. This is done for the Felix DSA driver only, as Ocelot
seems to be happy without it.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HhxEcU7Jg
Suggested-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| 69df578c | 29-Feb-2020 |
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> |
net: mscc: ocelot: eliminate confusion between CPU and NPI port
Ocelot has the concept of a CPU port. The CPU port is represented in the
forwarding and the queueing system, but it is not a physical
net: mscc: ocelot: eliminate confusion between CPU and NPI port
Ocelot has the concept of a CPU port. The CPU port is represented in the
forwarding and the queueing system, but it is not a physical device. The
CPU port can either be accessed via register-based injection/extraction
(which is the case of Ocelot), via Frame-DMA (similar to the first one),
or "connected" to a physical Ethernet port (called NPI in the datasheet)
which is the case of the Felix DSA switch.
In Ocelot the CPU port is at index 11.
In Felix the CPU port is at index 6.
The CPU bit is treated special in the forwarding, as it is never cleared
from the forwarding port mask (once added to it). Other than that, it is
treated the same as a normal front port.
Both Felix and Ocelot should use the CPU port in the same way. This
means that Felix should not use the NPI port directly when forwarding to
the CPU, but instead use the CPU port.
This patch is fixing this such that Felix will use port 6 as its CPU
port, and just use the NPI port to carry the traffic.
Therefore, eliminate the "ocelot->cpu" variable which was holding the
index of the NPI port for Felix, and the index of the CPU port module
for Ocelot, so the variable was actually configuring different things
for different drivers and causing at least part of the confusion.
Also remove the "ocelot->num_cpu_ports" variable, which is the result of
another confusion. The 2 CPU ports mentioned in the datasheet are
because there are two frame extraction channels (register based or DMA
based). This is of no relevance to the driver at the moment, and
invisible to the analyzer module.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Suggested-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| 74984a19 | 16-Jan-2020 |
Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com> |
net: dsa: felix: Allow PHY to AN 10/100/1000 with 2500 serdes link
If the serdes link is set to 2500 using interfce type 2500base-X, lower
link speeds over on the line side should still be supported
net: dsa: felix: Allow PHY to AN 10/100/1000 with 2500 serdes link
If the serdes link is set to 2500 using interfce type 2500base-X, lower
link speeds over on the line side should still be supported.
Rate adaptation is done out of band, in our case using AQR PHYs this is
done using flow control.
Signed-off-by: Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| 37fe45ad | 16-Jan-2020 |
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> |
net: dsa: felix: Don't error out on disabled ports with no phy-mode
The felix_parse_ports_node function was tested only on device trees
where all ports were enabled. Fix this check so that the drive
net: dsa: felix: Don't error out on disabled ports with no phy-mode
The felix_parse_ports_node function was tested only on device trees
where all ports were enabled. Fix this check so that the driver
continues to probe only with the ports where status is not "disabled",
as expected.
Fixes: bdeced75b13f ("net: dsa: felix: Add PCS operations for PHYLINK")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| 8c6123e1 | 16-Jan-2020 |
Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com> |
net: dsa: felix: Don't restart PCS SGMII AN if not needed
Some PHYs like VSC8234 don't like it when AN restarts on their system side
and they restart line side AN too, going into an endless link up/
net: dsa: felix: Don't restart PCS SGMII AN if not needed
Some PHYs like VSC8234 don't like it when AN restarts on their system side
and they restart line side AN too, going into an endless link up/down loop.
Don't restart PCS AN if link is up already.
Although in theory this feedback loop should be possible with the other
in-band AN modes too, for some reason it was not seen with the VSC8514
QSGMII and AQR412 USXGMII PHYs. So keep this logic only for SGMII where
the problem was found.
Fixes: bdeced75b13f ("net: dsa: felix: Add PCS operations for PHYLINK")
Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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| c0bcf537 | 20-Nov-2019 |
Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com> |
net: dsa: ocelot: add hardware timestamping support for Felix
This patch is to reuse ocelot functions as possible to enable PTP
clock and to support hardware timestamping on Felix.
On TX path, times
net: dsa: ocelot: add hardware timestamping support for Felix
This patch is to reuse ocelot functions as possible to enable PTP
clock and to support hardware timestamping on Felix.
On TX path, timestamping works on packet which requires timestamp.
The injection header will be configured accordingly, and skb clone
requires timestamp will be added into a list. The TX timestamp
is final handled in threaded interrupt handler when PTP timestamp
FIFO is ready.
On RX path, timestamping is always working. The RX timestamp could
be got from extraction header.
Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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