mlxsw: spectrum_router: Refactor virtual router handling
A virtual router (VR) is an entity within the device to which routing tables and interfaces can be bound to. It can be used to implement VRFs. In the initial implementation we associated the VR with a specific protocol (e.g., IPv4) and an LPM tree. However, this isn't really accurate, as the same VR can be used for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, by binding a different LPM tree to a {VR, Proto} pair. This patch aims to restructure the VR code according to the above logic, so that VRs are more accurately represented by the driver's data structures. The main motivation behind this change is to prepare the driver for VRF offload. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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