net: dsa: felix: enable cut-through forwarding between ports by default
The VSC9959 switch embedded within NXP LS1028A (and that version of Ocelot switches only) supports cut-through forwarding - meaning it can start the process of looking up the destination ports for a packet, and forward towards those ports, before the entire packet has been received (as opposed to the store-and-forward mode). The up side is having lower forwarding latency for large packets. The down side is that frames with FCS errors are forwarded instead of being dropped. However, erroneous frames do not result in incorrect updates of the FDB or incorrect policer updates, since these processes are deferred inside the switch to the end of frame. Since the switch starts the cut-through forwarding process after all packet headers (including IP, if any) have been processed, packets with large headers and small payload do not see the benefit of lower forwarding latency. There are two cases that need special attention. The first is when a packet is multicast (or flooded) to multiple destinations, one of which doesn't have cut-through forwarding enabled. The switch deals with this automatically by disabling cut-through forwarding for the frame towards all destination ports. The second is when a packet is forwarded from a port of lower link speed towards a port of higher link speed. This is not handled by the hardware and needs software intervention. Since we practically need to update the cut-through forwarding domain from paths that aren't serialized by the rtnl_mutex (phylink mac_link_down/mac_link_up ops), this means we need to serialize physical link events with user space updates of bonding/bridging domains. Enabling cut-through forwarding is done per {egress port, traffic class}. I don't see any reason why this would be a configurable option as long as it works without issues, and there doesn't appear to be any user space configuration tool to toggle this on/off, so this patch enables cut-through forwarding on all eligible ports and traffic classes. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211125125808.2383984-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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