netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4 iproute2-next] tc/police: Allow 64 bit burst size

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Message-Id: 
 <175816261648.2229542.5348982217548868366.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:30:16 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
 dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4 iproute2-next] tc/police: Allow 64 bit burst size

Hello:

This series was applied to iproute2/iproute2-next.git (main)
by David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>:

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:57:27 -0700 you wrote:
> In summary, this patchset changes the user space handling of the
> tc police burst parameter to permit burst sizes that exceed 4 GB when the
> specified rate is high enough that the kernel API for burst can accomodate
> such.
> 
> 	Additionally, if the burst exceeds the upper limit of the kernel
> API, this is now flagged as an error.  The existing behavior silently
> overflows, resulting in arbitrary values passed to the kernel.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3,1/4,iproute2-next] lib: Update backend of print_size to accept 64 bit size
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=1ee417ac43ee
  - [v2,2/4,iproute2-next] tc: Add get_size64 and get_size64_and_cell
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=8798ab4c4c02
  - [v2,3/4,iproute2-next] tc: Expand tc_calc_xmittime, tc_calc_xmitsize to u64
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=13b999aa74c8
  - [v2,4/4,iproute2-next] tc/police: enable use of 64 bit burst parameter
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=3b26e8abf404

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