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Ido Schimmel says: ==================== mlxsw: Support DSCP prioritization and rewrite Petr says: On ingress, a network device such as a switch assigns to packets priority based on various criteria. Common options include interpreting PCP and DSCP fields according to user configuration. When a packet egresses the switch, a reverse process may rewrite PCP and/or DSCP headers according to packet priority. So far, mlxsw has supported prioritization based on PCP (802.1p priority tag). This patch set introduces support for prioritization based on DSCP, and DSCP rewrite. To configure the DSCP-to-priority maps, the user is expected to invoke ieee_setapp and ieee_delapp DCBNL ops, e.g. by using lldptool: To decide whether or not to pay attention to DSCP values, the Spectrum switch recognize a per-port configuration of trust level. Until the first APP rule is added for a given port, this port's trust level stays at PCP, meaning that PCP is used for packet prioritization. With the first DSCP APP rule, the port is configured to trust DSCP instead, and it stays there until all DSCP APP rules are removed again. Besides the DSCP (value 5) selector, another selector that plays into packet prioritization is Ethernet type (value 1) with PID of 0. Such APP entries denote default priority[1]: With this patch set, mlxsw uses these values to configure priority for DSCP values not explicitly specified in DSCP APP map. In the future we expect to also use this to configure default port priority for untagged packets. Access to DSCP-to-priority map, priority-to-DSCP map, and default priority for a port is exposed through three new DCB helpers. Like the already-existing dcb_ieee_getapp_mask() helper, these helpers operate in terms of bitmaps, to support the arbitrary M:N mapping that the APP rules allow. Such interface presents all the relevant information from the APP database without necessitating exposition of iterators, locking or other complex primitives. It is up to the driver to then digest the mapping in a way that the device supports. In this patch set, mlxsw resolves conflicts by favoring higher-numbered DSCP values and priorities. In this patchset: - Patch #1 fixes a bug in DCB APP database management. - Patch #2 adds the getters described above. - Patches #3-#6 add Spectrum configuration registers. - Patch #7 adds the mlxsw logic that configures the device according to APP rules. - Patch #8 adds a self-test. The test is added to the subdirectory drivers/net/mlxsw. Even though it's not particularly specific to mlxsw, it's not suitable for running on soft devices (which don't support the ieee_getapp et.al.), and thus isn't a good fit for the general net/forwarding directory. [1] 802.1Q-2014, Table D-9 ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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