Re: [patch net-next 0/9] qdisc RED offload

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Mon,  6 Nov 2017 07:23:40 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> Nogah says:
> 
> Add an offload support for RED qdisc for mlxsw driver.
> The first patch adds the ability to offload RED qdisc by using
> ndo_setup_tc. It gives RED three commands, to offload, change or delete
> the qdisc, to get the qdisc generic stats and to get it's RED xstats.
> There is no enforcement on a driver to offload or not offload the qdisc and
> it is up to the driver to decide.
> RED qdisc is first being created and only later graft to a parent (unless
> it is a root qdisc). For that reason the return value of the offload
> replace command that is called in the init process doesn't reflect actual
> offload state. The offload state is determined in the dump function so it
> can be reflected to the user. This function is also responsible for stats
> update.
> 
> The patchses 2-3 change the name of TC_SETUP_MQPRIO & TC_SETUP_CBS to match
> with the new convention of QDISC prefix.
> The rest of the patchset is driver support for the qdisc. Currently only
> as root qdisc that is being set on the default traffic class. It supports
> only the following parameters of RED: min, max, probability and ECN mode.
> Limit and burst size related params are being ignored at this moment.

Series applied, thanks!