Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2023-02-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

Saeed Mahameed says:

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mlx5-updates-2023-02-10

1) From Roi and Mark: MultiPort eswitch support

MultiPort E-Switch builds on newer hardware's capabilities and introduces
a mode where a single E-Switch is used and all the vports and physical
ports on the NIC are connected to it.

The new mode will allow in the future a decrease in the memory used by the
driver and advanced features that aren't possible today.

This represents a big change in the current E-Switch implantation in mlx5.
Currently, by default, each E-Switch manager manages its E-Switch.
Steering rules in each E-Switch can only forward traffic to the native
physical port associated with that E-Switch. While there are ways to target
non-native physical ports, for example using a bond or via special TC
rules. None of the ways allows a user to configure the driver
to operate by default in such a mode nor can the driver decide
to move to this mode by default as it's user configuration-driven right now.

While MultiPort E-Switch single FDB mode is the preferred mode, older
generations of ConnectX hardware couldn't support this mode so it was never
implemented. Now that there is capable hardware present, start the
transition to having this mode by default.

Introduce a devlink parameter to control MultiPort Eswitch single FDB mode.
This will allow users to select this mode on their system right now
and in the future will allow the driver to move to this mode by default.

2) From Jiri: Improvements and fixes for mlx5 netdev's devlink logic
 2.1) Cleanups related to mlx5's devlink port logic
 2.2) Move devlink port registration to be done before netdev alloc
 2.3) Create auxdev devlink instance in the same ns as parent devlink
 2.4) Suspend auxiliary devices only in case of PCI device suspend

* tag 'mlx5-updates-2023-02-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux:
  net/mlx5: Suspend auxiliary devices only in case of PCI device suspend
  net/mlx5: Remove "recovery" arg from mlx5_load_one() function
  net/mlx5e: Create auxdev devlink instance in the same ns as parent devlink
  net/mlx5e: Move devlink port registration to be done before netdev alloc
  net/mlx5e: Move dl_port to struct mlx5e_dev
  net/mlx5e: Replace usage of mlx5e_devlink_get_dl_port() by netdev->devlink_port
  net/mlx5e: Pass mdev to mlx5e_devlink_port_register()
  net/mlx5: Remove outdated comment
  net/mlx5e: TC, Remove redundant parse_attr argument
  net/mlx5e: Use a simpler comparison for uplink rep
  net/mlx5: Lag, Add single RDMA device in multiport mode
  net/mlx5: Lag, set different uplink vport metadata in multiport eswitch mode
  net/mlx5: E-Switch, rename bond update function to be reused
  net/mlx5e: TC, Add peer flow in mpesw mode
  net/mlx5: Lag, Control MultiPort E-Switch single FDB mode
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230214221239.159033-1-saeed@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst
index 29ad304e6fba40..3321117cf60579 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,24 @@ parameters.
      - Control the number of large groups (size > 1) in the FDB table.
 
        * The default value is 15, and the range is between 1 and 1024.
+   * - ``esw_multiport``
+     - Boolean
+     - runtime
+     - Control MultiPort E-Switch shared fdb mode.
+
+       An experimental mode where a single E-Switch is used and all the vports
+       and physical ports on the NIC are connected to it.
+
+       An example is to send traffic from a VF that is created on PF0 to an
+       uplink that is natively associated with the uplink of PF1
+
+       Note: Future devices, ConnectX-8 and onward, will eventually have this
+       as the default to allow forwarding between all NIC ports in a single
+       E-switch environment and the dual E-switch mode will likely get
+       deprecated.
+
+       Default: disabled
+
 
 The ``mlx5`` driver supports reloading via ``DEVLINK_CMD_RELOAD``