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Ido Schimmel says: ==================== mlxsw: Add support for buffer drop traps Petr says: A recent patch set added the ability to mirror buffer related drops (e.g., early drops) through a netdev. This patch set adds the ability to trap such packets to the local CPU for analysis. The trapping towards the CPU is configured by using tc-trap action instead of tc-mirred as was done when the packets were mirrored through a netdev. A future patch set will also add the ability to sample the dropped packets using tc-sample action. The buffer related drop traps are added to devlink, which means that the dropped packets can be reported to user space via the kernel's drop_monitor module. Patch set overview: Patch #1 adds the early_drop trap to devlink Patch #2 adds extack to a few devlink operations to facilitate better error reporting to user space. This is necessary - among other things - because the action of buffer drop traps cannot be changed in mlxsw Patch #3 performs a small refactoring in mlxsw, patch #4 fixes a bug that this patchset would trigger. Patches #5-#6 add the infrastructure required to support different traps / trap groups in mlxsw per-ASIC. This is required because buffer drop traps are not supported by Spectrum-1 Patch #7 extends mlxsw to register the early_drop trap Patch #8 adds the offload logic for the "trap" action at a qevent block. Patch #9 adds a mlxsw-specific selftest. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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