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    net/mlx5: Split FDB fast path prio to multiple namespaces · 328edb49
    Paul Blakey authored
    
    
    Towards supporting multi-chains and priorities, split the FDB fast path
    to multiple namespaces (sub namespaces), each with multiple priorities.
    
    This patch adds a new flow steering type, FS_TYPE_PRIO_CHAINS, which is
    like current FS_TYPE_PRIO, but may contain only namespaces, and those
    will be in parallel to one another in terms of managing of the flow
    tables connections inside them. Meaning, while searching for the next
    or previous flow table to connect for a new table inside such namespace
    we skip the parallel namespaces in the same level under the
    FS_TYPE_PRIO_CHAINS prio we originated from.
    
    We use this new type for splitting the fast path prio into multiple
    parallel namespaces, each containing normal prios.
    The prios inside them (and their tables) will be connected to one
    another, but not from one parallel namespace to another, instead the
    last prio in each namespace will be connected to the next prio in
    the containing FDB namespace, which is the slow path prio.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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