Adrian Moreno 7b1b2b60c6 net: psample: allow using rate as probability
Although not explicitly documented in the psample module itself, the
definition of PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE seems inherited from act_sample.

Quoting tc-sample(8):
"RATE of 100 will lead to an average of one sampled packet out of every
100 observed."

With this semantics, the rates that we can express with an unsigned
32-bits number are very unevenly distributed and concentrated towards
"sampling few packets".
For example, we can express a probability of 2.32E-8% but we
cannot express anything between 100% and 50%.

For sampling applications that are capable of sampling a decent
amount of packets, this sampling rate semantics is not very useful.

Add a new flag to the uAPI that indicates that the sampling rate is
expressed in scaled probability, this is:
- 0 is 0% probability, no packets get sampled.
- U32_MAX is 100% probability, all packets get sampled.

Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240704085710.353845-5-amorenoz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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