Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) BBR TCP congestion control, from Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng and
    co. at Google. https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/

 2) Do TCP Small Queues for retransmits, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Support collect_md mode for all IPV4 and IPV6 tunnels, from Alexei
    Starovoitov.

 4) Allow cls_flower to classify packets in ip tunnels, from Amir Vadai.

 5) Support DSA tagging in older mv88e6xxx switches, from Andrew Lunn.

 6) Support GMAC protocol in iwlwifi mwm, from Ayala Beker.

 7) Support ndo_poll_controller in mlx5, from Calvin Owens.

 8) Move VRF processing to an output hook and allow l3mdev to be
    loopback, from David Ahern.

 9) Support SOCK_DESTROY for UDP sockets. Also from David Ahern.

10) Congestion control in RXRPC, from David Howells.

11) Support geneve RX offload in ixgbe, from Emil Tantilov.

12) When hitting pressure for new incoming TCP data SKBs, perform a
    partial rathern than a full purge of the OFO queue (which could be
    huge). From Eric Dumazet.

13) Convert XFRM state and policy lookups to RCU, from Florian Westphal.

14) Support RX network flow classification to igb, from Gangfeng Huang.

15) Hardware offloading of eBPF in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski.

16) New skbmod packet action, from Jamal Hadi Salim.

17) Remove some inefficiencies in snmp proc output, from Jia He.

18) Add FIB notifications to properly propagate route changes to
    hardware which is doing forwarding offloading. From Jiri Pirko.

19) New dsa driver for qca8xxx chips, from John Crispin.

20) Implement RFC7559 ipv6 router solicitation backoff, from Maciej
    Żenczykowski.

21) Add L3 mode to ipvlan, from Mahesh Bandewar.

22) Support 802.1ad in mlx4, from Moshe Shemesh.

23) Support hardware LRO in mediatek driver, from Nelson Chang.

24) Add TC offloading to mlx5, from Or Gerlitz.

25) Convert various drivers to ethtool ksettings interfaces, from
    Philippe Reynes.

26) TX max rate limiting for cxgb4, from Rahul Lakkireddy.

27) NAPI support for ath10k, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

28) Support XDP in mlx5, from Rana Shahout and Saeed Mahameed.

29) UDP replicast support in TIPC, from Richard Alpe.

30) Per-queue statistics for qed driver, from Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru.

31) Support BQL in thunderx driver, from Sunil Goutham.

32) TSO support in alx driver, from Tobias Regnery.

33) Add stream parser engine and use it in kcm.

34) Support async DHCP replies in ipconfig module, from Uwe
    Kleine-König.

35) DSA port fast aging for mv88e6xxx driver, from Vivien Didelot.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1715 commits)
  mlxsw: switchx2: Fix misuse of hard_header_len
  mlxsw: spectrum: Fix misuse of hard_header_len
  net/faraday: Stop NCSI device on shutdown
  net/ncsi: Introduce ncsi_stop_dev()
  net/ncsi: Rework the channel monitoring
  net/ncsi: Allow to extend NCSI request properties
  net/ncsi: Rework request index allocation
  net/ncsi: Don't probe on the reserved channel ID (0x1f)
  net/ncsi: Introduce NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL
  net/ncsi: Avoid unused-value build warning from ia64-linux-gcc
  net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic
  net: phy: Add Edge-rate driver for Microsemi PHYs.
  vmxnet3: Wake queue from reset work
  i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error
  qed: Add RoCE ll2 & GSI support
  qed: Add support for memory registeration verbs
  qed: Add support for QP verbs
  qed: PD,PKEY and CQ verb support
  qed: Add support for RoCE hw init
  qede: Add qedr framework
  ...

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index f20c884c048a..6d6c07cf1a9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ to address individual switches in the tree.
 
 dsa_switch: structure describing a switch device in the tree, referencing a
 dsa_switch_tree as a backpointer, slave network devices, master network device,
-and a reference to the backing dsa_switch_driver
+and a reference to the backing dsa_switch_ops
 
-dsa_switch_driver: structure referencing function pointers, see below for a full
+dsa_switch_ops: structure referencing function pointers, see below for a full
 description.
 
 Design limitations
@@ -357,10 +357,10 @@ regular HWMON devices in /sys/class/hwmon/.
 Driver development
 ==================
 
-DSA switch drivers need to implement a dsa_switch_driver structure which will
+DSA switch drivers need to implement a dsa_switch_ops structure which will
 contain the various members described below.
 
-register_switch_driver() registers this dsa_switch_driver in its internal list
+register_switch_driver() registers this dsa_switch_ops in its internal list
 of drivers to probe for. unregister_switch_driver() does the exact opposite.
 
 Unless requested differently by setting the priv_size member accordingly, DSA
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Switch configuration
   buses, return a non-NULL string
 
 - setup: setup function for the switch, this function is responsible for setting
-  up the dsa_switch_driver private structure with all it needs: register maps,
+  up the dsa_switch_ops private structure with all it needs: register maps,
   interrupts, mutexes, locks etc.. This function is also expected to properly
   configure the switch to separate all network interfaces from each other, that
   is, they should be isolated by the switch hardware itself, typically by creating
@@ -584,6 +584,29 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
   function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
   the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
 
+- port_mdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
+  installation of a multicast database entry. If the operation is not supported,
+  this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code to fallback
+  to a software implementation. No hardware setup must be done in this function.
+  See port_fdb_add for this and details.
+
+- port_mdb_add: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install
+  a multicast database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed with the
+  specified address in the specified VLAN ID in the forwarding database
+  associated with this VLAN ID.
+
+Note: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
+of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
+
+- port_mdb_del: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to remove a
+  multicast database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed to delete
+  the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
+  this port forwarding database.
+
+- port_mdb_dump: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
+  function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
+  the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and MDB info.
+
 TODO
 ====