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The Spectrum-2 and Spectrum-3 ASICs are able to mirror packets towards the CPU. These packets are then trapped like any other packet, but with a special packet trap and additional metadata such as why the packet was mirrored. The ability to mirror packets towards the CPU will be utilized by a subsequent patch set that will mirror packets that were dropped by the ASIC for various buffer-related reasons, such as tail-drop and early-drop. Add mirroring towards the CPU as a new SPAN agent type and re-use the functions that mirror to a physical port where possible. Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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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.