From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:58:29 +0000
> The Spectrum-2 ASIC allows multiple rules to use the same mask provided
> that the difference between their masks is small enough (up to 8
> consecutive delta bits). A more detailed explanation is provided in
> merge commit 756cd36626f7 ("Merge branch
> 'mlxsw-Introduce-algorithmic-TCAM-support'").
>
> These delta bits are part of the rule's key and therefore rules that
> only differ in their delta bits can be inserted with the same A-TCAM
> mask. In case two rules share the same key and only differ in their
> priority, then the second will spill to the C-TCAM.
>
> Current code does not take the delta bits into account when checking for
> duplicate rules, which leads to unnecessary spillage to the C-TCAM.
> This may result in reduced scale and performance.
>
> Patch #1 includes the delta bits in the rule's key to avoid the above
> mentioned problem.
>
> Patch #2 adds a tracepoint when a rule is inserted into the C-TCAM.
>
> Patches #3-#5 add test cases to make sure unnecessary spillage into the
> C-TCAM does not occur.
Series applied, thanks.
