Message ID | 20230112201554.752144-1-daniel.machon@microchip.com (mailing list archive) |
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Series | Introduce new DCB rewrite table | expand |
Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip.com> writes: > There is currently no support for per-port egress mapping of priority to PCP and > priority to DSCP. Some support for expressing egress mapping of PCP is supported > through ip link, with the 'egress-qos-map', however this command only maps > priority to PCP, and for vlan interfaces only. DCB APP already has support for > per-port ingress mapping of PCP/DEI, DSCP and a bunch of other stuff. So why not > take advantage of this fact, and add a new table that does the reverse. > > This patch series introduces the new DCB rewrite table. Whereas the DCB > APP table deals with ingress mapping of PID (protocol identifier) to priority, > the rewrite table deals with egress mapping of priority to PID. > > It is indeed possible to integrate rewrite in the existing APP table, by > introducing new dedicated rewrite selectors, and altering existing functions > to treat rewrite entries specially. However, I feel like this is not a good > solution, and will pollute the APP namespace. APP is well-defined in IEEE, and > some userspace relies of advertised entries - for this fact, separating APP and > rewrite into to completely separate objects, seems to me the best solution. > > The new table shares much functionality with the APP table, and as such, much > existing code is reused, or slightly modified, to work for both. > > ================================================================================ > DCB rewrite table in a nutshell > ================================================================================ > The table is implemented as a simple linked list, and uses the same lock as the > APP table. New functions for getting, setting and deleting entries have been > added, and these are exported, so they can be used by the stack or drivers. > Additionnaly, new dcbnl_setrewr and dcnl_delrewr hooks has been added, to > support hardware offload of the entries. Looks good to me overall. I just want to add that to configure rewrite, mlxsw currently reverses the APP prioritization table. That's not ideal, and is lossy as well--certain configurations simply can't be expressed however you set up in-driver heuristics. The proposed interfaces would make configuration of the rewrite functionality very straightforward.