Messages in this thread | | | From | Yuval Mintz <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] mqprio: Add a new hardware offload type in mqprio | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:10:28 +0000 |
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> When a driver supports both dcb and hardware offloaded mqprio, and > user is running mqprio and dcb tool concurrently, the configuration > set by each tool may be conflicted with each other because the dcb (for second 'each') s/each/the
> and mqprio may be using the same hardwere offload component and share s/hardwere/hardware
> the tc system in the network stack. > > This patch adds a new offload type to indicate that the underlying > driver offload prio mapping as part of DCB. If the driver would be 'should' offload
> incapable of that it would refuse the offload. User would then have > to explicitly request that qdisc offload.
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