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Petr Machata says: ==================== mlxsw: Refactor qdisc offload Currently, mlxsw admits for offload a suitable root qdisc, and its children. Thus up to two levels of hierarchy are offloaded. Often, this is enough: one can configure TCs with RED and TCs with a shaper, and can even see counters for each TC by looking at a qdisc at a sufficiently shallow position. While simple, the system has obvious shortcomings. It is not possible to configure both RED and shaping on one TC. It is not possible to place a PRIO below root TBF, which would then be offloaded as port shaper. FIFOs are only offloaded at root or directly below, which is confusing to users, because RED and TBF of course have their own FIFO. This patchset is a step towards the end goal of allowing more comprehensive qdisc tree offload and cleans up the qdisc offload code. - Patches #1-#4 contain small cleanups. - Up until now, since mlxsw offloaded only a very simple qdisc configurations, basically all bookkeeping was done using one container for the root qdisc, and 8 containers for its children. Patches #5, #6, #8 and #9 gradually introduce a more dynamic structure, where parent-child relationships are tracked directly at qdiscs, instead of being implicit. - This tree management assumes only one qdisc is created at a time. In FIFO handlers, this condition was enforced simply by asserting RTNL lock. But instead of furthering this RTNL dependence, patch #7 converts the whole qdisc offload logic to a per-port mutex. - Patch #10 adds a selftest. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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