[PATCH net-next v2 00/12] Multiqueue + DSA untag support + fixes for mtk_eth_soc

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 05:34:14PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> This series contains multiple improvements for mtk_eth_soc:
> 
> On devices with QDMA (MT7621 and newer), multiqueue support is implemented
> by using the SoC's traffic shaper function, which sits on the DMA engine.
> The driver exposes traffic shaper queues as network stack queues and configures
> them to the link speed limit. This fixes an issue where traffic to slower ports
> would drown out traffic to faster ports. It also fixes packet drops and jitter
> when running hardware offloaded traffic alongside traffic from the CPU.
> 
> On MT7622, the DSA tag for MT753x switches can be untagged by the DMA engine,
> which removes the need for header mangling in the DSA tag driver.
> 
> This is implemented by letting DSA skip the tag receive function, if the port
> is passed via metadata dst type METADATA_HW_PORT_MUX
> 
> Also part of this series are a number of fixes to TSO/SG support
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - drop the use of skb vlan tags to pass the port information to the tag driver,
>   use metadata_dst instead
> - fix a small issue in enabling untag

Please split the work and let's concentrate on one thing at a time
without extra noise, for example DSA RX tag processing offload first,
since that needs the most attention.

Also please use ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl when sending patches ;)