From: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia•com>
To: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip•com>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft•net>,
<petrm@nvidia•com>, <maxime.chevallier@bootlin•com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/6] net: dcb: add new pcp selector to app object
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 15:02:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edumvkkx.fsf@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221101094834.2726202-2-daniel.machon@microchip.com>
Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip•com> writes:
> Add new PCP selector for the 8021Qaz APP managed object.
>
> As the PCP selector is not part of the 8021Qaz standard, a new non-std
> extension attribute DCB_ATTR_DCB_APP has been introduced. Also two
> helper functions to translate between selector and app attribute type
> has been added. The new selector has been given a value of 255, to
> minimize the risk of future overlap of std- and non-std attributes.
>
> The new DCB_ATTR_DCB_APP is sent alongside the ieee std attribute in the
> app table. This means that the dcb_app struct can now both contain std-
> and non-std app attributes. Currently there is no overlap between the
> selector values of the two attributes.
>
> The purpose of adding the PCP selector, is to be able to offload
> PCP-based queue classification to the 8021Q Priority Code Point table,
> see 6.9.3 of IEEE Std 802.1Q-2018.
>
> PCP and DEI is encoded in the protocol field as 8*dei+pcp, so that a
> mapping of PCP 2 and DEI 1 to priority 3 is encoded as {255, 10, 3}.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip•com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia•com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-01 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-01 9:48 [PATCH net-next v6 0/6] Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to dcbnl Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/6] net: dcb: add new pcp selector to app object Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 14:02 ` Petr Machata [this message]
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/6] net: dcb: add new apptrust attribute Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 14:04 ` Petr Machata
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/6] net: microchip: sparx5: add support for offloading pcp table Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/6] net: microchip: sparx5: add support for apptrust Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 5/6] net: microchip: sparx5: add support for offloading dscp table Daniel Machon
2022-11-01 9:48 ` [PATCH net-next v6 6/6] net: microchip: sparx5: add support for offloading default prio Daniel Machon
2022-11-03 14:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 0/6] Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to dcbnl patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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