[PATCH v2 net-next 00/12] Add tc-taprio support for queueMaxSDU

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Fri Sep 23 2022 - 12:33:59 EST


The tc-taprio offload mode supported by the Felix DSA driver has
limitations surrounding its guard bands.

The initial discussion was at:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/c7618025da6723418c56a54fe4683bd7@xxxxxxxx/

with the latest status being that we now have a vsc9959_tas_guard_bands_update()
method which makes a best-guess attempt at how much useful space to
reserve for packet scheduling in a taprio interval, and how much to
reserve for guard bands.

IEEE 802.1Q actually does offer a tunable variable (queueMaxSDU) which
can determine the max MTU supported per traffic class. In turn we can
determine the size we need for the guard bands, depending on the
queueMaxSDU. This way we can make the guard band of small taprio
intervals smaller than one full MTU worth of transmission time, if we
know that said traffic class will transport only smaller packets.

As discussed with Gerhard Engleder, the queueMaxSDU may also be useful
in limiting the latency on an endpoint, if some of the TX queues are
outside of the control of the Linux driver.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220914153303.1792444-11-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/

Allow input of queueMaxSDU through netlink into tc-taprio, offload it to
the hardware I have access to (LS1028A), and deny non-default values to
everyone else. Kurt Kanzenbach has also kindly tested and shared a patch
to offload this to hellcreek.

Changes in v2:
- precompute the max_frm_len using dev->hard_header_len, so that the
fast path can directly check against skb->len
- add the newly added lan966x taprio offload to the list of drivers
which must reject the new option
- add some enetc cleanup patches from
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220921144349.1529150-2-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/
- get rid of some taprio cleanup patches which were merged separately
via https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20220915105046.2404072-1-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/
- make enetc_vf.ko compile by excluding the taprio offload code:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20220916133209.3351399-2-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/

v1 at:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20220914153303.1792444-1-vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx/

Kurt Kanzenbach (1):
net: dsa: hellcreek: Offload per-tc max SDU from tc-taprio

Vladimir Oltean (11):
net/sched: taprio: allow user input of per-tc max SDU
tsnep: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
igc: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
net: stmmac: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
net: am65-cpsw: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
net: lan966x: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
net: dsa: sja1105: deny tc-taprio changes to per-tc max SDU
net: dsa: felix: offload per-tc max SDU from tc-taprio
net: enetc: cache accesses to &priv->si->hw
net: enetc: use common naming scheme for PTGCR and PTGCAPR registers
net: enetc: offload per-tc max SDU from tc-taprio

drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek.c | 59 +++++++-
drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek.h | 7 +
drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix_vsc9959.c | 20 ++-
drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_tas.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/engleder/tsnep_tc.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c | 28 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.h | 12 +-
.../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_hw.h | 10 +-
.../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_pf.c | 25 +++-
.../net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_qos.c | 73 +++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 6 +-
.../microchip/lan966x/lan966x_taprio.c | 8 +
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_tc.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-qos.c | 6 +-
include/net/pkt_sched.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h | 11 ++
net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 138 +++++++++++++++++-
17 files changed, 351 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)

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