Summarized, this is basically how DSA looks like from a network device
perspective::
-
- |---------------------------
- | CPU network device (eth0)|
- ----------------------------
- | <tag added by switch |
- | |
- | |
- | tag added by CPU> |
- |--------------------------------------------|
- | Switch driver |
- |--------------------------------------------|
- || || ||
- |-------| |-------| |-------|
- | sw0p0 | | sw0p1 | | sw0p2 |
- |-------| |-------| |-------|
-
-
+ Unaware application
+ opens and binds socket
+ | ^
+ | |
+ +-----------v--|--------------------+
+ |+------+ +------+ +------+ +------+|
+ || swp0 | | swp1 | | swp2 | | swp3 ||
+ |+------+-+------+-+------+-+------+|
+ | DSA switch driver |
+ +-----------------------------------+
+ | ^
+ Tag added by | | Tag consumed by
+ switch driver | | switch driver
+ v |
+ +-----------------------------------+
+ | Unmodified host interface driver | Software
+ --------+-----------------------------------+------------
+ | Host interface (eth0) | Hardware
+ +-----------------------------------+
+ | ^
+ Tag consumed by | | Tag added by
+ switch hardware | | switch hardware
+ v |
+ +-----------------------------------+
+ | Switch |
+ |+------+ +------+ +------+ +------+|
+ || swp0 | | swp1 | | swp2 | | swp3 ||
+ ++------+-+------+-+------+-+------++
Slave MDIO bus
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