RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] mqprio: Add a new hardware offload type in mqprio

From: Yuval Mintz
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 16:10:40 EST


> 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.