netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] mlxsw: Further MC-awareness configuration

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Message-Id: <20180920.074759.425989228114861434.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     idosch@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, petrm@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] mlxsw: Further MC-awareness
 configuration

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:23 +0300

> Petr says:
> 
> Due to an issue in Spectrum chips, when unicast traffic shares the same
> queue as BUM traffic, and there is congestion, the BUM traffic is
> admitted to the queue anyway, thus pushing out all UC traffic. In order
> to give unicast traffic precedence over BUM traffic, multicast-aware
> mode is now configured on all ports. Under MC-aware mode, egress TCs
> 8..15 are used for BUM traffic, which has its own dedicated pool.
> 
> This patch set improves the way that the MC pool and the higher-order
> TCs are integrated into the system.

Series applied, thanks.

> Then in patch #13 the selftest itself is added.

Just wanted to say I'm really happy with the selftests that exist
for all of the problems that have been fixed recently in mlxsw.