Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] mlxsw: Enable MC-aware mode for mlxsw ports

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun,  5 Aug 2018 09:03:05 +0300

> Petr says:
> 
> Due to an issue in Spectrum chips, when unicast traffic shares the same
> queue as BUM traffic, and there is a congestion, the BUM traffic is
> admitted to the queue anyway, thus pushing out all UC traffic. In order
> to give unicast traffic precedence over BUM traffic, configure
> multicast-aware mode on all ports.
> 
> Under multicast-aware regime, when assigning traffic class to a packet,
> the switch doesn't merely take the value prescribed by the QTCT
> register. For BUM traffic, it instead assigns that value plus 8. That
> limits the number of available TCs, but since mlxsw currently only uses
> the lower eight anyway, it is no real loss.
> 
> The two TCs (UC and MC one) are then mapped to the same subgroup and
> strictly prioritized so that UC traffic is preferred in case of
> congestion.
> 
> In patch #1, introduce a new register, QTCTM, which enables the
> multicast-aware mode.
> 
> In patch #2, fix a typo in related code.
> 
> In patch #3, set up TCs and QTCTM to enable multicast-aware mode.

Series applied, thanks.