From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:19:14 -0400
> With DSA, a master net_device is physically wired to a dedicated CPU > switch port. For interaction with the DSA layer, the struct net_device > contains a dsa_ptr, which currently points to a dsa_switch_tree object. > > This is only valid for a switch fabric with a single CPU port. In order > to support switch fabrics with multiple CPU ports, we first need to > change the type of dsa_ptr to what it really is: a dsa_port object. > > This is what this patchset does. The first patches adds a > dsa_master_get_slave helper and cleans up portions of DSA core to make > the next patches more readable. These next patches prepare the xmit and > receive hot paths and finally change dsa_ptr. > > Changes in v2: > - introduce dsa_master_get_slave helper to simplify patch 6 > - keep hot path data at beginning of dsa_port for cacheline 1 Series applied, thank you.
