netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] Add packet trap policers support

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Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     idosch@...sch.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] Add packet trap policers support

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:38:17 +0300

> This patch set allows capable device drivers to register their supported
> packet trap policers with devlink. User space can then tune the
> parameters of these policers (currently, rate and burst size) and read
> from the device the number of packets that were dropped by the policer,
> if supported.
> 
> These packet trap policers can then be bound to existing packet trap
> groups, which are used to aggregate logically related packet traps. As a
> result, trapped packets are policed to rates that can be handled the
> host CPU.
 ...

Series applied, thank you.