Re: [net-next PATCH 0/5] octeontx2-pf: HTB offload support

[Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com>]

CCed Maxim Mikityanskiy since he has authored and done an extensive
amount of work on HTB offload support.

On Thu, 12 Jan, 2023 21:07:38 -0800 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:01:15 +0530 Hariprasad Kelam wrote:
>> octeontx2 silicon and CN10K transmit interface consists of five
>> transmit levels starting from MDQ, TL4 to TL1. Once packets are
>> submitted to MDQ, hardware picks all active MDQs using strict
>> priority, and MDQs having the same priority level are chosen using
>> round robin. Each packet will traverse MDQ, TL4 to TL1 levels.
>> Each level contains an array of queues to support scheduling and
>> shaping.
>> 
>> As HTB supports classful queuing mechanism by supporting rate and
>> ceil and allow the user to control the absolute bandwidth to
>> particular classes of traffic the same can be achieved by
>> configuring shapers and schedulers on different transmit levels.
>> 
>> This series of patches adds support for HTB offload,
>> 
>> Patch1: Allow strict priority parameter in HTB offload mode.
>> 
>> Patch2: defines APIs such that the driver can dynamically initialize/
>>         deinitialize the send queues.
>> 
>> Patch3: Refactors transmit alloc/free calls as preparation for QOS
>>         offload code.
>> 
>> Patch4: Adds devlink support for the user to configure round-robin
>>         priority at TL1
>> 
>> Patch5:  Adds actual HTB offload support.
>
> Rahul, since you're working on fixing the HTB offload warn - 
> would you mind reviewing this series?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230112173120.23312-1-hkelam@marvell.com/

I will take a look at the series and respond to the components I can
verify.