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Ido Schimmel says: ==================== mlxsw: Prepare SPAN API for upcoming changes Switched port analyzer (SPAN) is used for packet mirroring. Over mlxsw this is achieved by attaching tc-mirred action to either matchall or flower classifier. The current API used to configure SPAN consists of two functions: mlxsw_sp_span_mirror_add() and mlxsw_sp_span_mirror_del(). These two functions pack a lot of different operations: * SPAN agent configuration: Determining the egress port and optional headers that need to encapsulate the mirrored packet (when mirroring to a gretap, for example) * Egress mirror buffer configuration: Allocating / freeing a buffer when port is analyzed (inspected) at egress * SPAN agent binding: Binding the SPAN agent to a trigger, if any. The current triggers are incoming / outgoing packet and they are only used for matchall-based mirroring This non-modular design makes it difficult to extend the API for future changes, such as new mirror targets (CPU) and new global triggers (early dropped packets, for example). Therefore, this patch set gradually adds APIs for above mentioned operations and then converts the two existing users to use it instead of the old API. No functional changes intended. Tested with existing mirroring selftests. Patch set overview: Patches #1-#5 gradually add the new API Patches #6-#8 convert existing users to use the new API Patch #9 removes the old API ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
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