net/sched: taprio: give higher priority to higher TCs in software dequeue mode

Current taprio software implementation is haunted by the shadow of the
igb/igc hardware model. It iterates over child qdiscs in increasing
order of TXQ index, therefore giving higher xmit priority to TXQ 0 and
lower to TXQ N. According to discussions with Vinicius, that is the
default (perhaps even unchangeable) prioritization scheme used for the
NICs that taprio was first written for (igb, igc), and we have a case of
two bugs canceling out, resulting in a functional setup on igb/igc, but
a less sane one on other NICs.

To the best of my understanding, taprio should prioritize based on the
traffic class, so it should really dequeue starting with the highest
traffic class and going down from there. We get to the TXQ using the
tc_to_txq[] netdev property.

TXQs within the same TC have the same (strict) priority, so we should
pick from them as fairly as we can. We can achieve that by implementing
something very similar to q->curband from multiq_dequeue().

Since igb/igc really do have TXQ 0 of higher hardware priority than
TXQ 1 etc, we need to preserve the behavior for them as well. We really
have no choice, because in txtime-assist mode, taprio is essentially a
software scheduler towards offloaded child tc-etf qdiscs, so the TXQ
selection really does matter (not all igb TXQs support ETF/SO_TXTIME,
says Kurt Kanzenbach).

To preserve the behavior, we need a capability bit so that taprio can
determine if it's running on igb/igc, or on something else. Because igb
doesn't offload taprio at all, we can't piggyback on the
qdisc_offload_query_caps() call from taprio_enable_offload(), but
instead we need a separate call which is also made for software
scheduling.

Introduce two static keys to minimize the performance penalty on systems
which only have igb/igc NICs, and on systems which only have other NICs.
For mixed systems, taprio will have to dynamically check whether to
dequeue using one prioritization algorithm or using the other.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
index fd889fc4912b..2016839991a4 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ struct tc_mqprio_qopt_offload {
 struct tc_taprio_caps {
 	bool supports_queue_max_sdu:1;
 	bool gate_mask_per_txq:1;
+	/* Device expects lower TXQ numbers to have higher priority over higher
+	 * TXQs, regardless of their TC mapping. DO NOT USE FOR NEW DRIVERS,
+	 * INSTEAD ENFORCE A PROPER TC:TXQ MAPPING COMING FROM USER SPACE.
+	 */
+	bool broken_mqprio:1;
 };
 
 struct tc_taprio_sched_entry {