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Ido Schimmel committed b17b113e0c3
mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Add support for C-TCAM eRPs
The number of eRPs that can be used by a single A-TCAM region is limited
to 16. When more eRPs are needed, an ordinary circuit TCAM (C-TCAM) can
be used to hold the extra eRPs.
Unlike the A-TCAM, only a single (last) lookup is performed in the
C-TCAM and not a lookup per-eRP. However, modeling the C-TCAM as extra
eRPs will allow us to easily introduce support for pruning in a
follow-up patch set and is also logically correct.
The following diagram depicts the relation between both TCAMs:
C-TCAM
+-------------------+ +--------------------+ +-----------+
| | | | | |
| eRP #1 (A-TCAM) +----> ... +----+ eRP #16 (A-TCAM) +----+ eRP #17 |
| | | | | ... |
+-------------------+ +--------------------+ | eRP #N |
| |
+-----------+
Lookup order is from left to right.
Extend the eRP core APIs with a C-TCAM parameter which indicates whether
the requested eRP is to be used with the C-TCAM or not.
Since the C-TCAM is only meant to absorb rules that can't fit in the
A-TCAM due to exceeded number of eRPs or key collision, an error is
returned when a C-TCAM eRP needs to be created when the eRP state
machine is in its initial state (i.e., 'no masks'). This should only
happen in the face of very unlikely errors when trying to push rules
into the A-TCAM.
In order not to perform unnecessary lookups, the eRP core will only
enable a C-TCAM lookup for a given region if it knows there are C-TCAM
eRPs present.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>