netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 0/4] Support qevents

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Message-ID: <9137c1db-39b2-e739-db93-74990a5a3860@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 5 Jul 2020 09:46:55 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 0/4] Support qevents

On 6/30/20 4:14 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
> To allow configuring user-defined actions as a result of inner workings of
> a qdisc, a concept of qevents was recently introduced to the kernel.
> Qevents are attach points for TC blocks, where filters can be put that are
> executed as the packet hits well-defined points in the qdisc algorithms.
> The attached blocks can be shared, in a manner similar to clsact ingress
> and egress blocks, arbitrary classifiers with arbitrary actions can be put
> on them, etc.
> 
> For example:
> 
> # tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: \
> 	red limit 500K avpkt 1K qevent early_drop block 10
> # tc filter add block 10 \
> 	matchall action mirred egress mirror dev eth1
> 
> This patch set introduces the corresponding iproute2 support. Patch #1 adds
> the new netlink attribute enumerators. Patch #2 adds a set of helpers to
> implement qevents, and #3 adds a generic documentation to tc.8. Patch #4
> then adds two new qevents to the RED qdisc: mark and early_drop.
> 

applied to iproute2-next. Thanks