linux-kernel - Re: [v2,net-next] net: qos offload add flow status with dropped count

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Message-Id: <20200619.125416.1386065322120149725.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [v2,net-next] net: qos offload add flow status with dropped
 count

From: Po Liu <po.liu@....com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:01:07 +0800

> From: Po Liu <Po.Liu@....com>
> 
> This patch adds a drop frames counter to tc flower offloading.
> Reporting h/w dropped frames is necessary for some actions.
> Some actions like police action and the coming introduced stream gate
> action would produce dropped frames which is necessary for user. Status
> update shows how many filtered packets increasing and how many dropped
> in those packets.
> 
> v2: Changes
>  - Update commit comments suggest by Jiri Pirko.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Po Liu <Po.Liu@....com>

Applied, thank you.