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11493 aggr needs support for multiple pseudo rx groups
Portions contributed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Patrick Mooney <patrick.mooney@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
@@ -240,20 +240,63 @@
#define MC_PROPERTIES (MC_SETPROP | MC_GETPROP | MC_PROPINFO)
/*
* Virtualization Capabilities
*/
+
/*
- * The ordering of entries below is important. MAC_HW_CLASSIFIER
- * is the cutoff below which are entries which don't depend on
- * H/W. MAC_HW_CLASSIFIER and entries after that are cases where
- * H/W has been updated through add/modify/delete APIs.
+ * The type of ring classification. This is used by MAC to determine
+ * what, if any, processing it has to do upon receiving traffic on a
+ * particular Rx ring.
+ *
+ * MAC_NO_CLASSIFIER
+ *
+ * No classification has been set. No traffic should cross an Rx
+ * ring in this state.
+ *
+ * MAC_SW_CLASSIFIER
+ *
+ * The driver delivers traffic for multiple clients to this ring.
+ * All traffic must be software classified by MAC to guarantee
+ * delivery to the correct client. This classification type may
+ * be chosen for several reasons.
+ *
+ * o The driver provides only one group and there are multiple
+ * clients using the MAC.
+ *
+ * o The driver provides some hardware filtering but not enough
+ * to fully classify the traffic. E.g., a VLAN VNIC requires L2
+ * unicast address filtering as well as VLAN filtering, but
+ * some drivers may only support the former.
+ *
+ * o The ring belongs to the default group. The default group
+ * acts as a spillover for all clients that can't reserve an
+ * exclusive group. It also handles multicast traffic for all
+ * clients. For these reasons, the default group's rings are
+ * always software classified.
+ *
+ * MAC_HW_CLASSIFIER
+ *
+ * The driver delivers traffic for a single MAC client across
+ * this ring. With this guarantee, MAC can simply pass the
+ * traffic up the stack or even allow polling of the ring.
+ *
+ * MAC_PASSTHRU_CLASSIFIER
+ *
+ * The ring is in "passthru" mode. In this mode we bypass all of
+ * the typical MAC processing and pass the traffic directly to
+ * the mr_pt_fn callback, see mac_rx_common(). This is used in
+ * cases where there is another module acting as MAC provider on
+ * behalf of the driver. E.g., link aggregations use this mode to
+ * take full control of the port's rings; allowing it to enforce
+ * LACP protocols and aggregate rings across discrete drivers.
*/
typedef enum {
MAC_NO_CLASSIFIER = 0,
MAC_SW_CLASSIFIER,
- MAC_HW_CLASSIFIER
+ MAC_HW_CLASSIFIER,
+ MAC_PASSTHRU_CLASSIFIER
} mac_classify_type_t;
typedef void (*mac_rx_func_t)(void *, mac_resource_handle_t, mblk_t *,
boolean_t);
@@ -362,10 +405,11 @@
union {
mac_ring_send_t send;
mac_ring_poll_t poll;
} mrfunion;
mac_ring_stat_t mri_stat;
+
/*
* mri_flags will have some bits set to indicate some special
* property/feature of a ring like serialization needed for a
* Tx ring or packets should always need enqueuing on Rx side,
* etc.