Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: dsa: microchip: tc-ets support

[Oleksij Rempel]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:18:33PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:08:07 +0100 Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > changes v3:
> > - add tc_ets_supported to match supported devices
> > - dynamically regenerated default TC to queue map.
> > - add Acked-by to the first patch
> > 
> > changes v2:
> > - run egress limit configuration on all queue separately. Otherwise
> >   configuration may not apply correctly.
> 
> I thought Vladimir was suggesting mqprio, could you summarize the take
> aways from that discussion?

Both Qdiscs are suitable for my use case, but I prefer tc-ets because it
aligns better with the abilities of the KSZ9477 family of switches.
However, I won't be able to support only the deficit round-robin
functionality of tc-ets with this hardware. On the other hand, tc-mqprio
has more features that are not supported by this switch, such as TXQ
grouping, bandwidth limit, and DCB support. The advanced mapping
functionality of tc-mqprio, which involves mapping SO_PRIORITY to TCs
and then to TXQ groups, can also be confusing. For my use case, only TC
to TXQ mapping is needed.

Futures of tc-mqprio:
- all TXQ groups use a strict priority transmission selection algorithm
  (TSA). Within one TXQ group probably round robin robin TSA is used.
- Number of supported traffic classes (TCs) is equal to the number of
  TXQ groups.
- TCs have predefined priorities. TC0 == minimal prio and transmitted
  last if TCn> TC0 exists.
- flexible mapping of all SO_PRIORITYs to TCs
- flexible mapping of TCs to TXQ groups.
- configurable bandwidth limit per TXQ group.

Futures of tc-ets:
- supports strict priority and deficit round robin (DRR) TSA. Both
  variants can be combined.
- quantum of each DRR band can be flexibly configured.
- each band has predefined priority and mapped directly to a TXQ.
- Supports max 16 TCs. Each TC can be flexibly mapped to a band==TXQ.

Futures of KSZ9477 family:
- Supports up to 4 TXQs. LANxxxx variants support up to 8 TXQs
- Each TXQ can be configured to strict priority or to weighted round
  robin (WRR) TSA.
- If bandwidth configuration per TXQ is used TSA falls back to simple
  round robin.
- TXQs can’t be grouped without breaking strict priority TSA
- Max 8 TCs are supported and can be flexibly mapped to TXQs

Regards,
Oleksij
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