netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/5] TC: Introduce qevents

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Message-ID: <20200626155617.7f6a4c4c@hermes.lan>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:56:17 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, jiri@...lanox.com,
        idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/5] TC: Introduce qevents

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:45:24 +0300
Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com> wrote:

> The Spectrum hardware allows execution of one of several actions as a
> result of queue management decisions: tail-dropping, early-dropping,
> marking a packet, or passing a configured latency threshold or buffer
> size. Such packets can be mirrored, trapped, or sampled.
> 
> Modeling the action to be taken as simply a TC action is very attractive,
> but it is not obvious where to put these actions. At least with ECN marking
> one could imagine a tree of qdiscs and classifiers that effectively
> accomplishes this task, albeit in an impractically complex manner. But
> there is just no way to match on dropped-ness of a packet, let alone
> dropped-ness due to a particular reason.

Would a BPF based hook be more flexible and reuse more existing
infrastructure?