From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/18] devlink + mlxsw: add support for config and control of shared buffers Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:21:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160414.152156.2049059347507873710.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1460650770-19382-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com, yotamg@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, rami.rosen@intel.com, gospo@cumulusnetworks.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, sfeldma@gmail.com To: jiri@resnulli.us Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40316 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753299AbcDNTWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:22:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1460650770-19382-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:19:12 +0200 > ASICs implement shared buffer for packet forwarding purposes and enable > flexible partitioning of the shared buffer for different flows and ports, > enabling non-blocking progress of different flows as well as separation > of lossy traffic from loss-less traffic when using Per-Priority Flow > Control (PFC). The shared buffer optimizes the buffer utilization for better > absorption of packet bursts. > > This patchset implements API which is based on the model SAI uses. That is > aligned with multiple ASIC vendors so this API should be vendor neutral. > > Userspace counterpart patchset for devlink iproute2 tool can be found here: > https://github.com/jpirko/iproute2_mlxsw/tree/devlink_sb > > Couple of examples of usage: ... This looks really nice to me, series applied, thanks Jiri.