linux-kernel - Re: [v1] iproute2: police: support 64bit rate and peakrate in tc utility

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:21:15 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     David Dai <zdai@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        zdai@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v1] iproute2: police: support 64bit rate and peakrate in tc
 utility

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:52:56 -0500
David Dai <zdai@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> 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). Taking advantage of the 2 new
> attributes TCA_POLICE_RATE64 and TCA_POLICE_PEAKRATE64 from kernel,
> tc can use them to break the 32bit limit, and still keep the backward 
> binary compatibility.
> 
> Tested-by: David Dai <zdai@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Dai <zdai@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

This needs to go to iproute2-next not iproute2