netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/6] taprio: Add support for hardware offloading

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Date:   Sun, 7 Jul 2019 23:23:46 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        weifeng.voon@...el.com, jiri@...lanox.com, m-karicheri2@...com,
        Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com, ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/6] taprio: Add support for hardware offloading

On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 20:39, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 08:29:17PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
> >
> > This allows taprio to offload the schedule enforcement to capable
> > network cards, resulting in more precise windows and less CPU usage.
> >
> > The important detail here is the difference between the gate_mask in
> > taprio and gate_mask for the network driver. For the driver, each bit
> > in gate_mask references a transmission queue: bit 0 for queue 0, bit 1
> > for queue 1, and so on. This is done so the driver doesn't need to
> > know about traffic classes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Voon Weifeng <weifeng.voon@...el.com>
>
> Hi Vladimir
>
> Your SOB is also needed here.
>
>      Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I thought I'd added it, but it looks like I edited the patch and then
overwrote it, instead of operating on the git history.
Next time!

-Vladimir