linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_ale: add policer/classifier helpers and setup defaults

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Message-ID: <20240704085425.GY598357@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 09:54:25 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@...com>,
	Julien Panis <jpanis@...libre.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	srk@...com, vigneshr@...com, danishanwar@...com,
	pekka Varis <p-varis@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_ale: add
 policer/classifier helpers and setup defaults

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 04:51:36PM +0300, Roger Quadros wrote:
> The Policer registers in the ALE register space are just shadow registers
> and use an index field in the policer table control register to read/write
> to the actual Polier registers.
> Add helper functions to Read and Write to Policer registers.
> 
> Also add a helper function to set the thread value to classifier/policer
> mapping. Any packet that first matches the classifier will be sent to the
> thread (flow) that is set in the classifier to thread mapping table.
> If not set then it goes to the default flow.
> 
> Default behaviour is to have 8 classifiers to map 8 DSCP/PCP
> priorities to N receive threads (flows). N depends on number of
> RX channels enabled for the port.
> As per the standard [1] User prioritie 1 (Background) and 2 (Spare) have
> lower priority than the user priority 0 (default). User priority 1 being
> of the lowest priority.
> 
> [1] IEEE802.1D-2004, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks
> Table G-2 - Traffic type acronyms
> Table G-3 - Defining traffic types
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>
> ---
> Changelog:
> v3:
> - squashed 2 patches into 1
> - added comment explaining the default thread to priority mapping table
> - typo fix "classifer"->"classifier"

Thanks for the updates,

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>