From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: idosch@mellanox.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com, petrm@mellanox.com,
mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] mlxsw: Further MC-awareness configuration
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:47:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920.074759.425989228114861434.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180920062136.11888-1-idosch@mellanox.com>
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:21:23 +0300
> Petr says:
>
> Due to an issue in Spectrum chips, when unicast traffic shares the same
> queue as BUM traffic, and there is 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, multicast-aware
> mode is now configured on all ports. Under MC-aware mode, egress TCs
> 8..15 are used for BUM traffic, which has its own dedicated pool.
>
> This patch set improves the way that the MC pool and the higher-order
> TCs are integrated into the system.
Series applied, thanks.
> Then in patch #13 the selftest itself is added.
Just wanted to say I'm really happy with the selftests that exist
for all of the problems that have been fixed recently in mlxsw.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 6:21 [PATCH net-next 00/13] mlxsw: Further MC-awareness configuration Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 01/13] mlxsw: spectrum: Init shaper for TCs 8..15 Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 02/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Use devlink pool indices throughout Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 03/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Split TC_COUNT into ingress and egress Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 04/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Keep shared buffer size in mlxsw_sp_sb Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 05/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Allow pools of infinite size Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 06/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Allow an infinite maximum for per-TC pool limit Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 07/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Pass SBPM min_size in cells Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 08/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Allow configuration of static pools Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 09/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Configure MC pool Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 10/13] mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Tweak SBMM configuration Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 11/13] selftests: forwarding: lib: Add ethtool_stats_get() Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 12/13] selftests: forwarding: lib: Add mtu_set(), mtu_restore() Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 6:21 ` [PATCH net-next 13/13] selftests: mlxsw: Add a test for UC behavior under MC flood Ido Schimmel
2018-09-20 14:47 ` David Miller [this message]
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