On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:48:45 +0200 Ido Schimmel wrote: > Jiri says: > > This is a preparation patchset for follow-up support of boards with > extended mezzanine (XM), which is going to allow extended (scale-wise) > router offload. > > XM requires a separate PRM register named XMDR to be used instead of > RALUE to insert/update/remove FIB entries. Therefore, this patchset > extends the previously introduces low-level ops to be able to have > XM-specific FIB entry config implementation. > > Currently the existing original RALUE implementation is moved to "basic" > low-level ops. > > Unlike legacy router, insertion/update/removal of FIB entries into XM > could be done in bulks up to 4 items in a single PRM register write. > That is why this patchset implements "an op context", that allows the > future XM ops implementation to squash multiple FIB events to single > register write. For that, the way in which the FIB events are processed > by the work queue has to be changed. > > The conversion from 1:1 FIB event - work callback call to event queue is > implemented in patch #3. > > Patch #4 introduces "an op context" that will allow in future to squash > multiple FIB events into one XMDR register write. Patch #12 converts it > from stack to be allocated per instance. > > Existing RALUE manipulations are pushed to ops in patch #10. > > Patch #13 is introducing a possibility for low-level implementation to > have per FIB entry private memory. > > The rest of the patches are either cosmetics or smaller preparations.
Applied, thanks!
