[PATCH v4 03/14] net/mlx5: introduce hardware steering enable routine

[Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>]

The new hardware steering engine relies on using dedicated steering WQEs
instead of direct writing to the low-level steering table entries directly.
In the first introduce implementation the hardware steering engine supports
the new queue based Flow API, the existing synchronous non-queue based Flow
API is not supported.

A new dv_flow_en value 2 is added to manage mlx5 PMD steering engine:

dv_flow_en	rte_flow API	rte_flow_async API
------------------------------------------------
 0		support		not support
 1		support		not support
 2		not support	support

This commit introduces the extra dv_flow_en = 2 to specify the new
flow initialize and manage operation routine.

Signed-off-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst         | 13 ++++++++++---
 drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c |  4 ++++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c          |  7 ++++++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h          |  3 ++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c     | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index 34be031360..92127675a3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -943,10 +943,17 @@ for an additional list of options shared with other mlx5 drivers.
 
 - ``dv_flow_en`` parameter [int]
 
-  A nonzero value enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported
-  by the driver (RDMA Core library version is rdma-core-24.0 or higher).
+  Value 0 means legacy Verbs flow offloading.
 
-  Enabled by default if supported.
+  Value 1 enables the DV flow steering assuming it is supported by the
+  driver (RDMA Core library version is rdma-core-24.0 or higher).
+
+  Value 2 enables the WQE based hardware steering. In this mode only
+  the queue-based rte_flow_q flow management is supported.
+
+  Configured by default to 1 DV flow steering if the driver(RDMA CORE library)
+  supported. Otherwise, the value will be 0 which indicates legacy Verbs flow
+  offloading.
 
 - ``dv_esw_en`` parameter [int]
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
index 058c140fe1..5b91e057b2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ mlx5_alloc_shared_dr(struct mlx5_priv *priv)
 	err = mlx5_alloc_table_hash_list(priv);
 	if (err)
 		goto error;
+	if (priv->sh->config.dv_flow_en == 2)
+		return 0;
 	/* The resources below are only valid with DV support. */
 #ifdef HAVE_IBV_FLOW_DV_SUPPORT
 	/* Init port id action list. */
@@ -1535,6 +1537,8 @@ mlx5_dev_spawn(struct rte_device *dpdk_dev,
 	priv->drop_queue.hrxq = mlx5_drop_action_create(eth_dev);
 	if (!priv->drop_queue.hrxq)
 		goto error;
+	if (priv->sh->config.dv_flow_en == 2)
+		return eth_dev;
 	/* Port representor shares the same max priority with pf port. */
 	if (!priv->sh->flow_priority_check_flag) {
 		/* Supported Verbs flow priority number detection. */
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 9760f52b46..baa4ae75f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,12 @@ mlx5_dev_args_check_handler(const char *key, const char *val, void *opaque)
 	} else if (strcmp(MLX5_DV_ESW_EN, key) == 0) {
 		config->dv_esw_en = !!tmp;
 	} else if (strcmp(MLX5_DV_FLOW_EN, key) == 0) {
-		config->dv_flow_en = !!tmp;
+		if (tmp > 2) {
+			DRV_LOG(ERR, "Invalid %s parameter.", key);
+			rte_errno = EINVAL;
+			return -rte_errno;
+		}
+		config->dv_flow_en = tmp;
 	} else if (strcmp(MLX5_DV_XMETA_EN, key) == 0) {
 		if (tmp != MLX5_XMETA_MODE_LEGACY &&
 		    tmp != MLX5_XMETA_MODE_META16 &&
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h
index fa27f65a36..d36d679625 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h
@@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ struct mlx5_sh_config {
 	int tx_skew; /* Tx scheduling skew between WQE and data on wire. */
 	uint32_t reclaim_mode:2; /* Memory reclaim mode. */
 	uint32_t dv_esw_en:1; /* Enable E-Switch DV flow. */
-	uint32_t dv_flow_en:1; /* Enable DV flow. */
+	/* Enable DV flow. 1 means SW steering, 2 means HW steering. */
+	unsigned int dv_flow_en:2;
 	uint32_t dv_xmeta_en:2; /* Enable extensive flow metadata. */
 	uint32_t dv_miss_info:1; /* Restore packet after partial hw miss. */
 	uint32_t l3_vxlan_en:1; /* Enable L3 VXLAN flow creation. */
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
index aec14ea39d..ef7f2ceaee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
@@ -6849,6 +6849,15 @@ mlx5_flow_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		 const struct rte_flow_action actions[],
 		 struct rte_flow_error *error)
 {
+	struct mlx5_priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
+
+	if (priv->sh->config.dv_flow_en == 2) {
+		rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
+			  RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
+			  NULL,
+			  "Flow non-Q creation not supported");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	/*
 	 * If the device is not started yet, it is not allowed to created a
 	 * flow from application. PMD default flows and traffic control flows
@@ -7345,6 +7354,13 @@ mlx5_flow_destroy(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		  struct rte_flow *flow,
 		  struct rte_flow_error *error __rte_unused)
 {
+	struct mlx5_priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
+
+	if (priv->sh->config.dv_flow_en == 2)
+		return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
+			  RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
+			  NULL,
+			  "Flow non-Q destruction not supported");
 	flow_list_destroy(dev, MLX5_FLOW_TYPE_GEN,
 				(uintptr_t)(void *)flow);
 	return 0;
@@ -7442,7 +7458,13 @@ mlx5_flow_query(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		struct rte_flow_error *error)
 {
 	int ret;
+	struct mlx5_priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
 
+	if (priv->sh->config.dv_flow_en == 2)
+		return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
+			  RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
+			  NULL,
+			  "Flow non-Q query not supported");
 	ret = flow_drv_query(dev, (uintptr_t)(void *)flow, actions, data,
 			     error);
 	if (ret < 0)
-- 
2.25.1