Re: [PATCH] net/ice: remove unreachable DCF scheduler branch

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 01:03:50PM +0300, Artem Novikov wrote:
> Non-leaf node validation rejects any non-NULL WFQ weight mode before
> checking the SP priority count. Therefore the later else-if branch
> cannot be reached, because wfq_weight_mode is guaranteed to be NULL at
> that point.
> 
> Remove the dead branch to avoid keeping an impossible validation path in
> the DCF scheduler parameter checks.
> 
> Fixes: 3a6bfc37eaf4 ("net/ice: support QoS config VF bandwidth in DCF")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Cc: ting.xu@intel.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artem Novikov <naa@amicon.ru>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c
> index 795b6e683d..5895407331 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c
> @@ -188,12 +188,6 @@ ice_dcf_node_param_check(struct ice_dcf_hw *hw, uint32_t node_id,
>  				RTE_TM_ERROR_TYPE_NODE_PARAMS_N_SP_PRIORITIES;
>  			error->message = "SP priority not supported";
>  			return -EINVAL;
> -		} else if (params->nonleaf.wfq_weight_mode &&
> -			   !(*params->nonleaf.wfq_weight_mode)) {
> -			error->type =
> -				RTE_TM_ERROR_TYPE_NODE_PARAMS_WFQ_WEIGHT_MODE;
> -			error->message = "WFP should be byte mode";
> -			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
>  
>  		return 0;
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>