From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:23:44 -0800
> This series updates the GRED Qdisc. The Qdisc matches nfp offload very > well, but before we can offload it there are a number of improvements > to make. > > First few patches add extack messages to the Qdisc and pass extack > to netlink validation. > > Next a new netlink attribute group is added, to allow GRED to be > extended more easily. Currently GRED passes C structures as attributes, > and even an array of C structs for virtual queue configuration. User > space has hard coded the expected length of that array, so adding new > fields is not possible. > > New two-level attribute group is added: > > [TCA_GRED_VQ_LIST] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_ENTRY] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_DP] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_FLAGS] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_STAT_*] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_ENTRY] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_DP] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_FLAGS] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_STAT_*] > [TCA_GRED_VQ_ENTRY] > ... > > Statistics are dump only. Patch 4 switches the byte counts to be 64 bit, > and patch 5 introduces the new stats attributes for dump. Patch 6 > switches RED flags to be per-virtual queue, and patch 7 allows them > to be dumped and set at virtual queue granularity. Nice work, series applied.
