On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com> wrote: > This patch series is meant to allow support for the L2 forward offload, aka > MACVLAN offload without the need for using ndo_select_queue. > > The existing solution currently requires that we use ndo_select_queue in > the transmit path if we want to associate specific Tx queues with a given > MACVLAN interface. In order to get away from this we need to repurpose the > tc_to_txq array and XPS pointer for the MACVLAN interface and use those as > a means of accessing the queues on the lower device. As a result we cannot > offload a device that is configured as multiqueue, however it doesn't > really make sense to configure a macvlan interfaced as being multiqueue > anyway since it doesn't really have a qdisc of its own in the first place. > > I am submitting this as an RFC for the netdev mailing list, and officially > submitting it for testing to Jeff Kirsher's next-queue in order to validate > the ixgbe specific bits. > > The big changes in this set are: > Allow lower device to update tc_to_txq and XPS map of offloaded MACVLAN > Disable XPS for single queue devices > Replace accel_priv with sb_dev in ndo_select_queue > Add sb_dev parameter to fallback function for ndo_select_queue > Consolidated ndo_select_queue functions that appeared to be duplicates > > v2: Implement generic "select_queue" functions instead of "fallback" > functions. > Tweak last two patches to account for changes in dev_pick_tx_xxx > functions. > > --- > > Alexander Duyck (7): > net-sysfs: Drop support for XPS and traffic_class on single queue device > net: Add support for subordinate device traffic classes > ixgbe: Add code to populate and use macvlan tc to Tx queue map > net: Add support for subordinate traffic classes to netdev_pick_tx > net: Add generic ndo_select_queue functions > net: allow ndo_select_queue to pass netdev > net: allow fallback function to pass netdev >
Alex, there were recent changes to Dave's net-next which caused a conflict with one or more of your patches. So I have removed this series from my tree for now, and will work with you on updating the series to work with the latest net-next tree.
