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Add TC_MATCHALL ingress ratelimiting offload support with POLICE
action for entire traffic coming into the interface.
Eg: To ratelimit ingress traffic to 100Mbps
$ ethtool -K eth0 hw-tc-offload on
$ tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact
$ tc filter add dev eth0 ingress matchall skip_sw \
action police rate 100Mbit burst 32Kbit
To support this, a leaf level bandwidth profile is allocated and all
RQs' contexts used by this interface are updated to point to it.
And the leaf level bandwidth profile is configured with user specified
rate and burst sizes.
Co-developed-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.