Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 0/5] Improve the taprio qdisc's relationship with its children

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 01:09:01PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> That being said, a non-offloaded cbs/htb will not work with an offloaded
> taprio root anymore after commit 13511704f8d7 ("net: taprio offload:
> enforce qdisc to netdev queue mapping"), and IMO what should be done
> there is to reject somehow those child Qdiscs which also can't be
> offloaded when the root is offloaded.
> 
> Offloading a taprio qdisc (potentially with offloaded cbs children) also
> affects the autonomous forwarding data path in case of an Ethernet switch.
> So it's not just about dev_queue_xmits() from Linux.

Ah, no, I said something stupid. Non-offloaded child Qdisc should still
work with offloaded root (shaping done in software, scheduling in hardware).
I was thinking about the autonomous forwarding case in the back of my
mind, that's still problematic because the shaping wouldn't affect the
packets that Linux didn't originate.