Merge branch 'mlx5-hw-managed-flow-steering-in-fs-core-level'

Tariq Toukan says:

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mlx5 HW-Managed Flow Steering in FS core level

This patchset by Moshe follows Yevgeny's patchsets [1][2] on subject
"HW-Managed Flow Steering in mlx5 driver". As introduced there in HW
managed Flow Steering mode (HWS) the driver is configuring steering
rules directly to the HW using WQs with a special new type of WQE (Work
Queue Element). This way we can reach higher rule insertion/deletion
rate with much lower CPU utilization compared to SW Managed Flow
Steering (SWS).

This patchset adds API to manage namespace, flow tables, flow groups and
prepare FTE (Flow Table Entry) rules. It also adds caching and pool
mechanisms for HWS actions to allow sharing of steering actions among
different rules. The implementation of this API in FS layer, allows FS
core to use HW Managed Flow Steering in addition to the existing FW or
SW Managed Flow Steering.

Patch 13 of this series adds support for configuring HW Managed Flow
Steering mode through devlink param, similar to configuring SW Managed
Flow Steering mode:

 # devlink dev param set pci/0000:08:00.0 name flow_steering_mode \
      cmode runtime value hmfs

In addition, the series contains 2 HWS patches from Yevgeny that
implement flow update support.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240903031948.78006-1-saeed@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250102181415.1477316-1-tariqt@nvidia.com/
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250109160546.1733647-1-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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