Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/6] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_ale: add policer/classifier helpers and setup defaults

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 12:24:02PM +0300, Roger Quadros wrote:
> The Policer registers in the ALE register space are just shadow registers
> and use an index field in the policer table control register to read/write
> to the actual Polier registers.
> Add helper functions to Read and Write to Policer registers.
> 
> Also add a helper function to set the thread value to classifier/policer
> mapping. Any packet that first matches the classifier will be sent to the
> thread (flow) that is set in the classifier to thread mapping table.
> If not set then it goes to the default flow.
> 
> Default behaviour is to have 8 classifiers to map 8 DSCP/PCP
> priorities to N receive threads (flows). N depends on number of
> RX channels enabled for the port.
> As per the standard [1] User prioritie 1 (Background) and 2 (Spare) have
> lower priority than the user priority 0 (default). User priority 1 being
> of the lowest priority.
> 
> [1] IEEE802.1D-2004, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks
> Table G-2 - Traffic type acronyms
> Table G-3 - Defining traffic types
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>