This patch series lays the groundwork for future work to allow us to make full use of the mqprio options when offloading them to hardware.
Currently when we specify the hardware offload for mqprio the queue configuration is completely ignored and the hardware is only notified of the total number of traffic classes. The problem is this leads to multiple issues, one specific issue being you can pass the queue configuration you want and it is totally ignored by the hardware. What I am planning to do is add support for "hw" values in the configuration greater than 1. So for example we might have one mode of mqprio offload that uses 1 and only offloads the TC counts like we currently do. Then we might look at adding an option 2 which would factor in the TCs and the queue count information. This way we can select between the type of offload we actually want and existing drivers that don't support this can just fall back to their legacy configuration. --- Alexander Duyck (1): mqprio: Change handling of hw u8 to allow for multiple hardware offload modes Amritha Nambiar (1): mqprio: Modify mqprio to pass user parameters via ndo_setup_tc. drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 5 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c | 16 +++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 7 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/tx.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c | 12 ++++-- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h | 8 ++++ net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 39 +++++++++++++-------- 15 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) --