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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/9] rocker: add new rocker ethernet switch d


From: Scott Feldman
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/9] rocker: add new rocker ethernet switch device
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:47:57 -0700

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:09 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Scott Feldman <address@hidden>
>
> v8:
>
>  - From Stefan Hajnoczi's net-pull-request v3, merge in these changes:
>      - Squash David Ahern's clang struct definition warnings fix
>      - Squash in Jiri's fix for rocker format string specifiers [Peter]
>      - Squash in Windows build fix [Peter]
>
>  - In addition, fix 2 compile warnings from net-pull-request v4:
>      - Fix compile issue for min glibc 2.12
>      - w32: fix 64 bit constant without ULL suffix
>
> v7:
>
>  - Per Stefan Hajnoczi comments:
>      - #ifdef CONFIG_ROCKER wrapper around qmp/hmp to fix compile when PCI is
>        disabled or rocker is disabled.
>
> v6:
>
>  - Per Stefan Hajnoczi review:
>      - Move tests to tests/rocker
>      - Fix some mem leaks
>      - Fix doc grammer/spelling
>  - Per Eric Blake review:
>      - Add #optional to optional args comments in qmp interface
>      - Add "query-" prefix to qmp cmds
>      - Fix doc grammer/spelling
>
> v5:
>
>  - Per Jason Wang review:
>      - Fix some missing/wrong references in the rocker.txt spec
>      - mark rocker as unmigratable.
>
> v4:
>
>  - Per Paolo Bonzini review:
>      - move reg_guide.txt to docs/specs/rocker.txt
>      - fix some spelling/grammer mistakes in the rocker.txt doc
>      - fix some misleading/wrong statements in rocker.txt
>      - add double 4-byte access for 64-bit registers
>      - define new ROCKER_Exxx to replace usage of errno.h return codes
>  - Add patch from David Ahern to timestamp debug output
>
> v3:
>
>  - Per Stefan Hajnoczi review:
>      - move HMP rocker cmds to "info rocker"
>      - prefix QMP rocker cmds with query-
>      - tag QMP cmds as "Since 2.3"
>      - convert structs to typedef with CamelCase naming
>  - Remove SDHCI device ID move patch...Paolo Bonzini is addressing
>    SDHCI move is separate patch.
>
> v2:
>
>  - Address reg_guide.txt review comments from Eric Blake
>  - Address QMP review comments from Eric Blake
>
> v1:
>
> [This is a collaboration between myself and Jiri Pirko].
>
> This patch set adds a new ethernet switch device, called rocker.  Rocker is
> intended to emulate HW features of switch ASICs found in today's
> data-center-class switch/routers.  The original motivation in creating a new
> device is to accelerate device driver development for ethernet switches in the
> Linux kernel.  A device driver for rocker already exists in the Linux 3.18
> kernel and loads against this device.  Basic L2 switching (bridging)
> functionality is offloaded to the device.  Work continues to enable offloading
> of L3 routing functions and ACLs, as well as support for a flow-based modes,
> such as OpenVSwitch with OpenFlow.  Future support for terminating L2-over-L3
> tunnels is also planned.
>
> The core network processing functions are based on the spec of a real device:
> Broadcom's OF-DPA.  Specifically, rocker borrows OF-DPA's network processing
> pipeline comprised of flow match and action tables.  Only the OF-DPA spec was
> used in constructing rocker.  The rocker developers do not have access to the
> real OF-DPA's software source code, so this is a clean-room, ground-up
> development.
>
> Each rocker device is a PCI device with a memory-mapped register space and
> MSI-X interrupts for command and event processing, as well as CPU-bound I/O.
> Each device can support up to 62 "front-panel" ports, which present themselves
> as -netdev attachment points.  The device is programmed using OF-DPA flow and
> group tables to setup the flow pipeline.  The programming defines the
> forwarding path for packets ingressing on 'front-panel' ports.  The forwarding
> path can look at L2/L3/L4 packet header to forward the packet to its
> destination.  For the performance path, packets would ingress and egress only
> on the device, and not be passed up to the device driver (or host OS).  The
> slow path for control packets will forward packets to the CPU via the device
> driver for host OS processing.
>
> A QMP/HMP interface is added to give inside into the device's internal port
> configuration and flow/group tables.
>
> A test directory is included with some basic sanity tests to verify the device
> and driver.
>
> David Ahern (1):
>   rocker: timestamp on the debug logs helps correlate with events in
>     the VM
>
> Scott Feldman (8):
>   net: add MAC address string printer
>   virtio-net: use qemu_mac_strdup_printf
>   rocker: add register programming guide
>   pci: add rocker device ID
>   pci: add network device class 'other' for network switches
>   rocker: add new rocker switch device
>   rocker: add tests
>   MAINTAINERS: add rocker
>
>  MAINTAINERS                   |    6 +
>  default-configs/pci.mak       |    1 +
>  docs/specs/pci-ids.txt        |    1 +
>  docs/specs/rocker.txt         | 1009 ++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/net/Makefile.objs          |    4 +
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker.c        | 1480 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker.h        |   84 ++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_desc.c   |  377 +++++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_desc.h   |   53 +
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_fp.c     |  234 +++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_fp.h     |   51 +
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_hw.h     |  491 +++++++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c | 2315 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.h |   22 +
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_tlv.h    |  244 +++++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_world.c  |  106 ++
>  hw/net/rocker/rocker_world.h  |   60 ++
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c           |   12 +-
>  include/hw/pci/pci.h          |    1 +
>  include/hw/pci/pci_ids.h      |    1 +
>  include/net/net.h             |    1 +
>  net/net.c                     |    7 +
>  tests/rocker/README           |    5 +
>  tests/rocker/all              |   19 +
>  tests/rocker/bridge           |   48 +
>  tests/rocker/bridge-stp       |   57 +
>  tests/rocker/bridge-vlan      |   57 +
>  tests/rocker/bridge-vlan-stp  |   69 ++
>  tests/rocker/port             |   22 +
>  tests/rocker/tut.dot          |    8 +
>  30 files changed, 6836 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 docs/specs/rocker.txt
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_desc.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_desc.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_fp.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_fp.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_hw.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_tlv.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_world.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/net/rocker/rocker_world.h
>  create mode 100644 tests/rocker/README
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/all
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/bridge
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/bridge-stp
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/bridge-vlan
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/bridge-vlan-stp
>  create mode 100755 tests/rocker/port
>  create mode 100644 tests/rocker/tut.dot
>
> --
> 1.7.10.4
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