From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:39:12 -0700
> This patch series lays the groundwork for future work to allow us to make > full use of the mqprio options when offloading them to hardware. > > Currently when we specify the hardware offload for mqprio the queue > configuration is completely ignored and the hardware is only notified of > the total number of traffic classes. The problem is this leads to multiple > issues, one specific issue being you can pass the queue configuration you > want and it is totally ignored by the hardware. > > What I am planning to do is add support for "hw" values in the > configuration greater than 1. So for example we might have one mode of > mqprio offload that uses 1 and only offloads the TC counts like we > currently do. Then we might look at adding an option 2 which would factor > in the TCs and the queue count information. This way we can select between > the type of offload we actually want and existing drivers that don't > support this can just fall back to their legacy configuration. This looks fine, series applied, thanks Alex.
