netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 00/11] ENETC mqprio/taprio cleanup

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:22:08 -0800
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@...il.com>
CC:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Camelia Groza <camelia.groza@....com>,
        Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        "Gerhard Engleder" <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        "Kurt Kanzenbach" <kurt@...utronix.de>,
        Ferenc Fejes <ferenc.fejes@...csson.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 00/11] ENETC mqprio/taprio cleanup



On 1/20/2023 6:15 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> I realize that this patch set will start a flame war, but there are
> things about the mqprio qdisc that I simply don't understand, so in an
> attempt to explain how I see things should be done, I've made some
> patches to the code. I hope the reviewers will be patient enough with me :)
> 
> I need to touch mqprio because I'm preparing a patch set for Frame
> Preemption (an IEEE 802.1Q feature). A disagreement started with
> Vinicius here:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220816222920.1952936-3-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com/#24976672
> 
> regarding how TX packet prioritization should be handled. Vinicius said
> that for some Intel NICs, prioritization at the egress scheduler stage
> is fundamentally attached to TX queues rather than traffic classes.
> 
> In other words, in the "popular" mqprio configuration documented by him:
> 
> $ tc qdisc replace dev $IFACE parent root handle 100 mqprio \
>       num_tc 3 \
>       map 2 2 1 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 \
>       queues 1@0 1@1 2@2 \
>       hw 0
> 
> there are 3 Linux traffic classes and 4 TX queues. The TX queues are
> organized in strict priority fashion, like this: TXQ 0 has highest prio
> (hardware dequeue precedence for TX scheduler), TXQ 3 has lowest prio.
> Packets classified by Linux to TC 2 are hashed between TXQ 2 and TXQ 3,
> but the hardware has higher precedence for TXQ2 over TXQ 3, and Linux
> doesn't know that.
> 
> I am surprised by this fact, and this isn't how ENETC works at all.
> For ENETC, we try to prioritize on TCs rather than TXQs, and TC 7 has
> higher priority than TC 7. For us, groups of TXQs that map to the same
> TC have the same egress scheduling priority. It is possible (and maybe
> useful) to have 2 TXQs per TC - one TXQ per CPU). Patch 07/11 tries to
> make that more clear.
> 
> Furthermore (and this is really the biggest point of contention), myself
> and Vinicius have the fundamental disagreement whether the 802.1Qbv
> (taprio) gate mask should be passed to the device driver per TXQ or per
> TC. This is what patch 11/11 is about.
> 
> Again, I'm not *certain* that my opinion on this topic is correct
> (and it sure is confusing to see such a different approach for Intel).
> But I would appreciate any feedback.
> 
> Vladimir Oltean (11):
>   net/sched: mqprio: refactor nlattr parsing to a separate function
>   net/sched: mqprio: refactor offloading and unoffloading to dedicated
>     functions
>   net/sched: move struct tc_mqprio_qopt_offload from pkt_cls.h to
>     pkt_sched.h
>   net/sched: mqprio: allow offloading drivers to request queue count
>     validation
>   net/sched: mqprio: add extack messages for queue count validation
>   net: enetc: request mqprio to validate the queue counts
>   net: enetc: act upon the requested mqprio queue configuration
>   net/sched: taprio: pass mqprio queue configuration to ndo_setup_tc()
>   net: enetc: act upon mqprio queue config in taprio offload
>   net/sched: taprio: validate that gate mask does not exceed number of
>     TCs
>   net/sched: taprio: only calculate gate mask per TXQ for igc
> 

I don't work on igc or the i225/i226 devices, so I can't speak for
those, but this series looks ok to me.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>

>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c  |  67 ++--
>  .../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_qos.c  |  27 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c     |  17 +
>  include/net/pkt_cls.h                         |  10 -
>  include/net/pkt_sched.h                       |  16 +
>  net/sched/sch_mqprio.c                        | 298 +++++++++++-------
>  net/sched/sch_taprio.c                        |  57 ++--
>  7 files changed, 310 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)
>