[PATCH net-next v1 2/8] net: ieee8021q: add pcp_to_tt()
From: Oleksij Rempel
Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 07:59:23 EST
Add a helper that maps an IEEE 802.1Q Priority Code Point (PCP) to the
corresponding 802.1Q traffic type, complementing the existing
ietf_dscp_to_ieee8021q_tt().
It is very nearly an identity map, except that PCP 0 (Best Effort) and
PCP 1 (Background) are swapped: per 802.1Q-2022 (Annex I, Table I-2)
Background is a lower priority than Best Effort even though it carries
the higher PCP value. PCP 2..7 map straight through to the matching
traffic type, and values above 7 are rejected with -EINVAL. This decodes
the 8P0D encoding (Table I-7), where every PCP value is a priority and
none carries drop eligibility.
Drivers that classify ingress traffic by PCP need this to map into a
priority-ordered internal space without misordering Best Effort and
Background. The first consumer, the realtek rtl8365mb DSA driver, lands
later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/ieee8021q.h | 10 +++++++--
net/core/ieee8021q_helpers.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/ieee8021q.h b/include/net/ieee8021q.h
index 8bfe903dd3d0..d24e4036577b 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee8021q.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee8021q.h
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
* enum ieee8021q_traffic_type - 802.1Q traffic type priority values (802.1Q-2022)
*
* @IEEE8021Q_TT_BK: Background
- * @IEEE8021Q_TT_BE: Best Effort (default). According to 802.1Q-2022, BE is 0
- * but has higher priority than BK which is 1.
+ * @IEEE8021Q_TT_BE: Best Effort (default). According to 802.1Q-2022 (Annex I,
+ * Table I-2), BE is 0 but has higher priority than BK which is 1.
* @IEEE8021Q_TT_EE: Excellent Effort
* @IEEE8021Q_TT_CA: Critical Applications
* @IEEE8021Q_TT_VI: Video, < 100 ms latency and jitter
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum ieee8021q_traffic_type {
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NET_IEEE8021Q_HELPERS)
int ietf_dscp_to_ieee8021q_tt(u8 dscp);
+int ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt(u8 pcp);
int ieee8021q_tt_to_tc(enum ieee8021q_traffic_type tt, unsigned int num_queues);
#else
@@ -47,6 +48,11 @@ static inline int ietf_dscp_to_ieee8021q_tt(u8 dscp)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
+static inline int ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt(u8 pcp)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
static inline int ieee8021q_tt_to_tc(enum ieee8021q_traffic_type tt,
unsigned int num_queues)
{
diff --git a/net/core/ieee8021q_helpers.c b/net/core/ieee8021q_helpers.c
index bbacdfff9b4c..a5bd5e039b47 100644
--- a/net/core/ieee8021q_helpers.c
+++ b/net/core/ieee8021q_helpers.c
@@ -222,3 +222,44 @@ int ietf_dscp_to_ieee8021q_tt(u8 dscp)
return SIMPLE_IETF_DSCP_TO_IEEE8021Q_TT(dscp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ietf_dscp_to_ieee8021q_tt);
+
+/**
+ * ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt - Map an IEEE 802.1Q PCP to a traffic type
+ * @pcp: IEEE 802.1Q Priority Code Point value
+ *
+ * Decode @pcp to its IEEE 802.1Q traffic type per Table I-7 ("Priority Code
+ * Point decoding") for the 8P0D encoding, where all eight PCP values are
+ * priorities and none carries drop eligibility. It is nearly the identity,
+ * except PCP 0 (Best Effort) and PCP 1 (Background) map to swapped traffic
+ * types: Background is lower priority than Best Effort despite the higher PCP
+ * value (Table I-2: BE = priority 0, BK = priority 1).
+ *
+ * The 7P1D/6P2D/5P3D encodings, whose lower PCP values carry drop eligibility,
+ * are the other rows of Table I-7 and are not decoded here.
+ *
+ * Return: the traffic type, or a negative value on error.
+ */
+int ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt(u8 pcp)
+{
+ switch (pcp) {
+ case 0:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_BE;
+ case 1:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_BK;
+ case 2:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_EE;
+ case 3:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_CA;
+ case 4:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_VI;
+ case 5:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_VO;
+ case 6:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_IC;
+ case 7:
+ return IEEE8021Q_TT_NC;
+ }
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt);
--
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