Re: [v3] net_sched: act_police: add 2 new attributes to support police 64bit rate and peakrate

[Cong Wang]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:03 AM David Dai <zdai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For high speed adapter like Mellanox CX-5 card, it can reach upto
> 100 Gbits per second bandwidth. Currently htb already supports 64bit rate
> in tc utility. However police action rate and peakrate are still limited
> to 32bit value (upto 32 Gbits per second). Add 2 new attributes
> TCA_POLICE_RATE64 and TCA_POLICE_RATE64 in kernel for 64bit support
> so that tc utility can use them for 64bit rate and peakrate value to
> break the 32bit limit, and still keep the backward binary compatibility.
>
> Tested-by: David Dai <zdai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Dai <zdai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.