Re: [PATCH net-next v1 4/8] net: ieee8021q: add tt_to_pcp()

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add ieee8021q_tt_to_pcp(), the inverse of ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt(): it
> encodes an 802.1Q traffic type back to its Priority Code Point, and
> completes the pcp/tt helper family.
>
> A driver that reseeds its PCP classifier through ieee8021q_pcp_to_tt()
> stores traffic types in the hardware tables, while the dcbnl priority
> ops exchange 802.1p priorities across the DSA boundary. Reading such a
> table back therefore needs the reverse mapping to restore the 802.1p
> value, which no existing helper provides. Because pcp_to_tt only
> transposes Best Effort and Background and is the identity elsewhere the
> two directions are numerically equal; provide tt_to_pcp as its own named
> function so the read path does not decode a traffic type as if it were a
> PCP.
>
> The first user is the Realtek rtl8365mb DSA driver, whose dcbnl
> get_default_prio and get_dscp_prio paths read back traffic types and
> must return 802.1p priorities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Perfect, this is very helpful stuff.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij