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Commit efdc810b authored by Mohamad Haj Yahia's avatar Mohamad Haj Yahia Committed by David S. Miller
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net/mlx5: Flow steering, Add vport ACL support



Update the relevant flow steering device structs and commands to
support vport.
Update the flow steering core API to receive vport number.
Add ingress and egress ACL flow table name spaces.
Add ACL flow table support:
* ACL (Access Control List) flow table is a table that contains
only allow/drop steering rules.

* We have two types of ACL flow tables - ingress and egress.

* ACLs handle traffic sent from/to E-Switch FDB table, Ingress refers to
traffic sent from Vport to E-Switch and Egress refers to traffic sent
from E-Switch to vport.

* Ingress ACL flow table allow/drop rules is checked against traffic
sent from VF.

* Egress ACL flow table allow/drop rules is checked against traffic sent
to VF.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMohamad Haj Yahia <mohamad@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent fbc4a69b
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