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This patch provides a mechanism for lower layer devices to steer traffic using skb->priority to tx queues. This allows for hardware based QOS schemes to use the default qdisc without incurring the penalties related to global state and the qdisc lock. While reliably receiving skbs on the correct tx ring to avoid head of line blocking resulting from shuffling in the LLD. Finally, all the goodness from txq caching and xps/rps can still be leveraged. Many drivers and hardware exist with the ability to implement QOS schemes in the hardware but currently these drivers tend to rely on firmware to reroute specific traffic, a driver specific select_queue or the queue_mapping action in the qdisc. By using select_queue for this drivers need to be updated for each and every traffic type and we lose the goodness of much of the upstream work. Firmware solutions are inherently inflexible. And finally if admins are expected to build a qdisc and filter rules to steer traffic this requires knowledge of how the hardware is currently configured. The number of tx queues and the queue offsets may change depending on resources. Also this approach incurs all the overhead of a qdisc with filters. With the mechanism in this patch users can set skb priority using expected methods ie setsockopt() or the stack can set the priority directly. Then the skb will be steered to the correct tx queues aligned with hardware QOS traffic classes. In the normal case with single traffic class and all queues in this class everything works as is until the LLD enables multiple tcs. To steer the skb we mask out the lower 4 bits of the priority and allow the hardware to configure upto 15 distinct classes of traffic. This is expected to be sufficient for most applications at any rate it is more then the 8021Q spec designates and is equal to the number of prio bands currently implemented in the default qdisc. This in conjunction with a userspace application such as lldpad can be used to implement 8021Q transmission selection algorithms one of these algorithms being the extended transmission selection algorithm currently being used for DCB. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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| Makefile | ||
| datagram.c | ||
| dev.c | ||
| dev_addr_lists.c | ||
| drop_monitor.c | ||
| dst.c | ||
| ethtool.c | ||
| fib_rules.c | ||
| filter.c | ||
| flow.c | ||
| gen_estimator.c | ||
| gen_stats.c | ||
| iovec.c | ||
| kmap_skb.h | ||
| link_watch.c | ||
| neighbour.c | ||
| net-sysfs.c | ||
| net-sysfs.h | ||
| net-traces.c | ||
| net_namespace.c | ||
| netevent.c | ||
| netpoll.c | ||
| pktgen.c | ||
| request_sock.c | ||
| rtnetlink.c | ||
| scm.c | ||
| skbuff.c | ||
| sock.c | ||
| stream.c | ||
| sysctl_net_core.c | ||
| timestamping.c | ||
| user_dma.c | ||
| utils.c | ||