netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net/tc: introduce TC_ACT

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpUpnY=euK99uogzXpUKm9MiX9jn66QRTFJvx_ucRng4kA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:48:16 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_REINJECT.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:27 AM Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com> wrote:
>
> Those changes were there from the beginning (above patch did
> not introduce them).
> IIRC, the reason was to distinguish between policy intended
> drops and drops because of errors.

There must be a limit for "overlimit" to make sense. There is
no limit in mirred action's context, probably there is only
such a limit in act_police. So, all rest should not touch overlimit.