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Commit f261708b authored by Arkadi Sharshevsky's avatar Arkadi Sharshevsky Committed by David S. Miller
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mlxsw: documentation: Add resources ABI documentation 



Add resources ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArkadi Sharhsevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 24cc68ad

Documentation/ABI/testing/devlink-resource-mlxsw

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What: 		/kvd/

Date:		08-Jan-2018

KernelVersion:	v4.16

Contact:	mlxsw@mellanox.com

Description:	The main database in the Spectrum device is a centralized

		KVD database used for many of the tables used to configure

		the chip including L2 FDB, L3 LPM, ECMP and more. The KVD

		is divided into two sections, the first is hash-based table

		and the second is a linear access table. The division

		between the linear and hash-based sections is static and

		require reload before the changes take effect.



What: 		/kvd/linear

Date:		08-Jan-2018

KernelVersion:	v4.16

Contact:	mlxsw@mellanox.com

Description:	The linear section of the KVD is managed by software as a

		flat memory accessed using an index.



What: 		/kvd/hash_single

Date:		08-Jan-2018

KernelVersion:	v4.16

Contact:	mlxsw@mellanox.com

Description:	The hash based section of the KVD is managed by the switch

		device. Used in case the key size is smaller or equal to

		64bit.



What: 		/kvd/hash_double

Date:		08-Jan-2018

KernelVersion:	v4.16

Contact:	mlxsw@mellanox.com

Description:	The hash based section of the KVD is managed by the switch

		device. Used in case the key is larger than 64 bit.