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This patch introduces new mailbox mesages to retrieve a given MCAM entry or base flow steering rule of a VF installed by its parent PF. This helps while updating the existing MCAM rules with out re-framing the whole mailbox request again. The INSTALL FLOW mailbox consumer can read-modify-write the existing entry. Similarly while installing new flow rules for a VF, the base flow steering rule match creteria is copied to the new flow rule and the deltas are appended to the new rule. Signed-off-by: Naveen Mamindlapalli <naveenm@marvell.com> Co-developed-by: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.