Re: [net-next Patch v2 4/5] octeontx2-pf: Add devlink support to configure TL1 RR_PRIO

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 20:27:03 EST


On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:02:29 +0200 Maxim Mikityanskiy wrote:
> So, basically, in your implementation, entities prioritized by hardware
> are: each HTB class, each VF and PF; you want to keep user-assigned
> priorities for HTB classes, you want to let the user assign a priority
> for unclassified traffic, but the latter must be equal for all VFs and
> PF (for DWRR to work), correct? And that devlink command is only useful
> in the HTB scenario, i.e. it doesn't matter what tl1_rr_prio you set if
> HTB is not used, right?

To me HW this limited does not sound like a match for HTB offload.