Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:02:36 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: [v3] net_sched: act_police: add 2 new attributes to support police 64bit rate and peakrate | From | David Miller <> |
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From: David Dai <zdai@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 10:03:43 -0500
> For high speed adapter like Mellanox CX-5 card, it can reach upto > 100 Gbits per second bandwidth. Currently htb already supports 64bit rate > in tc utility. However police action rate and peakrate are still limited > to 32bit value (upto 32 Gbits per second). Add 2 new attributes > TCA_POLICE_RATE64 and TCA_POLICE_RATE64 in kernel for 64bit support > so that tc utility can use them for 64bit rate and peakrate value to > break the 32bit limit, and still keep the backward binary compatibility. > > Tested-by: David Dai <zdai@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: David Dai <zdai@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > Changelog: > v1->v2: > - Move 2 attributes TCA_POLICE_RATE64 TCA_POLICE_PEAKRATE64 after > TCA_POLICE_PAD in pkt_cls.h header. > v2->v3: > - Use TCA_POLICE_PAD instead of __TCA_POLICE_MAX as padding attr > in last parameter in nla_put_u64_64bit() routine.
Applied to net-next.
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