On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:49:22PM +0100, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> The switch has support for the 802.1Qbv Time Aware Shaper (TAS). Traffic
> schedules may be configured individually on each front port. Each port has 
> eight
> egress queues. The traffic is mapped to a traffic class respectively via the 
> PCP
> field of a VLAN tagged frame.
>
> The TAPRIO Qdisc already implements that. Therefore, this interface can simply
> be reused. Add .port_setup_tc() accordingly.
>
> The activation of a schedule on a port is split into two parts:
>
>  * Programming the necessary gate control list (GCL)
>  * Setup delayed work for starting the schedule
>
> The hardware supports starting a schedule up to eight seconds in the future. 
> The
> TAPRIO interface provides an absolute base time. Therefore, periodic delayed
> work is leveraged to check whether a schedule may be started or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <k...@linutronix.de>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com>

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