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Vladimir Oltean 6f2e1c75bc net: dsa: introduce the dsa_xmit_port_mask() tagging protocol helper
Many tagging protocols deal with the transmit port mask being a bit
mask, and set it to BIT(dp->index). Not a big deal.

Also, some tagging protocols are written for switches which support HSR
offload (including packet duplication offload), there we see a walk
using dsa_hsr_foreach_port() to find the other port in the same switch
that's member of the HSR, and set that bit in the port mask too.

That isn't sufficiently interesting either, until you come to realize
that there isn't anything special in the second case that switches just
in the first one can't do too.

It just becomes a matter of "is it wise to do it? are sufficient people
using HSR/PRP with generic off-the-shelf switches to justify add an
extra test in the data path?" - the answer to which is probably "it
depends". It isn't _much_ worse to not have HSR offload at all, so as to
make it impractical, esp. with a rich OS like Linux. But the HSR users
are rather specialized in industrial networking.

Anyway, the change acts on the premise that we're going to have support
for this, it should be uniformly implemented for everyone, and that if
we find some sort of balance, we can keep everyone relatively happy.

So I've disabled that logic if CONFIG_HSR isn't enabled, and I've tilted
the branch predictor to say it's unlikely we're transmitting through a
port with this capability currently active. On branch miss, we're still
going to save the transmission of one packet, so there's some remaining
benefit there too. I don't _think_ we need to jump to static keys yet.

The helper returns a 32-bit zero-based unsigned number, that callers
have to transpose using FIELD_PREP(). It is not the first time we assume
DSA switches won't be larger than 32 ports - dsa_user_ports() has that
assumption baked into it too.

One last development note about why pass the "skb" argument when this
isn't used. Looking at the compiled code on arm64, which is identical
both with and without it, the answer is "why not?" - who knows what
other features dependent on the skb may be handled in the future.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251126093240.2853294-4-mmyangfl@gmail.com/
Cc: "Alvin Šipraga" <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>
Cc: Chester A. Unal" <chester.a.unal@arinc9.com>
Cc: "Clément Léger" <clement.leger@bootlin.com>
Cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
Cc: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Cc: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
Cc: UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com
Cc: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127120902.292555-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 20:03:39 -08:00
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block vfs-6.18-rc7.fixes 2025-11-17 09:11:27 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto net: Convert proto_ops bind() callbacks to use sockaddr_unsized 2025-11-04 19:10:32 -08:00
Documentation ynl: fix schema check errors 2025-11-28 19:53:20 -08:00
drivers net: bcmgenet: extract GRXRINGS from .get_rxnfc 2025-11-28 19:56:22 -08:00
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init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/cmd_net: fix wrong argument types for skb_queue_splice() 2025-11-20 11:40:15 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
net net: dsa: introduce the dsa_xmit_port_mask() tagging protocol helper 2025-11-28 20:03:39 -08:00
rust rust: Add -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference to bindgen_skip_c_flags 2025-11-10 08:37:06 +08:00
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security selinux/stable-6.18 PR 20251121 2025-11-22 09:24:36 -08:00
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