netdev - Re: [PATCH net] mlxsw: spectrum: Fix IP2ME CPU policer configuration

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Message-Id: <20181103.193234.1839916006079586453.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 03 Nov 2018 19:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     idosch@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, shalomt@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mlxsw: spectrum: Fix IP2ME CPU policer
 configuration

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 19:49:15 +0000

> From: Shalom Toledo <shalomt@...lanox.com>
> 
> The CPU policer used to police packets being trapped via a local route
> (IP2ME) was incorrectly configured to police based on bytes per second
> instead of packets per second.
> 
> Change the policer to police based on packets per second and avoid
> packet loss under certain circumstances.
> 
> Fixes: 9148e7cf73ce ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add policers for trap groups")
> Signed-off-by: Shalom Toledo <shalomt@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.