netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] Add support for passing more information in mqprio offload

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexander.duyck@...il.com
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] Add support for passing more information
 in mqprio offload

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:39:12 -0700

> This patch series lays the groundwork for future work to allow us to make
> full use of the mqprio options when offloading them to hardware.
> 
> Currently when we specify the hardware offload for mqprio the queue
> configuration is completely ignored and the hardware is only notified of
> the total number of traffic classes.  The problem is this leads to multiple
> issues, one specific issue being you can pass the queue configuration you
> want and it is totally ignored by the hardware.
> 
> What I am planning to do is add support for "hw" values in the
> configuration greater than 1.  So for example we might have one mode of
> mqprio offload that uses 1 and only offloads the TC counts like we
> currently do.  Then we might look at adding an option 2 which would factor
> in the TCs and the queue count information. This way we can select between
> the type of offload we actually want and existing drivers that don't
> support this can just fall back to their legacy configuration.

This looks fine, series applied, thanks Alex.