Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: dsa: microchip: add ETS Qdisc support for KSZ9477 series

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:35:42PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > So what does the user gain using tc-ets over tc-mqprio? That has a way
> > to set up strict prioritization and prio:tc maps as well, and to my
> > knowledge mqprio is vastly more popular in non-DCB setups than tc-ets.
> > The only thing is that with mqprio, AFAIK, the round robin between TXQs
> > belonging to the same traffic class is not weighted.
> 
> Do mqprio already supports strict prio mode? net-next was not supporting
> this back for two weeks. I do not care what to use, my motivation was based on
> following points:
> - tc-ets supports strict prio. mqprio need to be extended to do this
> - tc-ets refers to IEEE 802.1Q specification, so i feel safe
>   and do not need to invent new things.
> - mqprio automatically creates software queues, but it seems to not
>   provide any advantage for a typical bridged DSA setup. For example
>   i can use queue mapping only for traffic from CPU to external DSA port
>   but can't use multi queue advantages of CPU MAC for same traffic  (do I'm
>   missing something). For bridged traffic i'll need to use HW offloading any
>   way.

Sorry, my inbox is a mess and I forgot to respond to this.
What do you mean tc-mqprio doesn't support strict priority? Strict
priority between traffic classes is what it *does* (the "prio" in the name),
although without hardware offload, the prioritization isn't enforced anywhere.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean?

For strict prioritization using multi-queue on the DSA master you should
be able to set up a separate Qdisc.