MC-aware mode was recently enabled by mlxsw on Spectrum switches in commit 7b8195306694 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Configure MC-aware mode on mlxsw ports"). Unfortunately, testing has shown that the fix is incomplete and in the presented form actually makes the problem even worse, because any amount of MC traffic causes UC disruption. The reason for this is that currently, mlxsw configures the MC-specific TCs (8..15) to map to pool 0. It also configures a maximum buffer size of 0, but for MC traffic that maximum is disregarded and not part of the quota. Therefore MC traffic is always admitted to the egress buffer. Fix the configuration by directing the MC TCs into pool 15, which is dedicated to MC traffic and recognized as such by the silicon. Fixes: 7b8195306694 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Configure MC-aware mode on mlxsw ports") Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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