netdev - Re: [patch net-next 00/19] mlxsw: traps, trap groups and policers

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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:22:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nogahf@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
        eladr@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com, arkadis@...lanox.com,
        ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/19] mlxsw: traps, trap groups and policers

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:33:28 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Nogah says:
> 
> For a packet to be sent from the HW to the cpu, it needs to be trapped.
> For a trap to be activate it should be assigned to a trap group.
> Those trap groups can have policers, to limit the packet rate (the max
> number of packets that can be sent to the cpu in a time slot, the rest
> will be discarded) or the data rate (the same, but the count is not by the
> number of packets but by their total length in bytes).
> 
> This patchset rearrange the trap setting API, re-write the traps and the
> trap groups list in spectrum and assign them policers.

Series applied, thanks.