[PATCH net-next] net: airoha: add preliminary support to configure tx hw QoS queue during flowtable offloading

[Simon Horman]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 01:02:17PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Add the plumbing to program the AIROHA_FOE_QID field in the PPE FOE
> entry with a per-flow priority value during flowtable offload. This
> allows the hardware to steer offloaded flows to a specific QoS queue
> on the egress QDMA block for traffic forwarded between two interfaces
> via hardware acceleration, bypassing the kernel forwarding path.
> The priority parameter is currently always zero because netfilter does
> not yet provide a mechanism to pass the skb priority field to the
> flowtable offload driver. Once that support is added in the netfilter
> subsystem, the driver will be able to extract the priority from the
> flow rule and map it to the appropriate hardware queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>