Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/6] Port and flow policers for DSA (SJA1105, Felix/Ocelot)

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Mar 30 2020 - 14:44:22 EST


From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:51:56 +0300

> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
>
> This series adds support for 2 types of policers:
> - port policers, via tc matchall filter
> - flow policers, via tc flower filter
> for 2 DSA drivers:
> - sja1105
> - felix/ocelot
>
> First we start with ocelot/felix. Prior to this patch, the ocelot core
> library currently only supported:
> - Port policers
> - Flow-based dropping and trapping
> But the felix wrapper could not actually use the port policers due to
> missing linkage and support in the DSA core. So one of the patches
> addresses exactly that limitation by adding the missing support to the
> DSA core. The other patch for felix flow policers (via the VCAP IS2
> engine) is actually in the ocelot library itself, since the linkage with
> the ocelot flower classifier has already been done in an earlier patch
> set.
>
> Then with the newly added .port_policer_add and .port_policer_del, we
> can also start supporting the L2 policers on sja1105.
>
> Then, for full functionality of these L2 policers on sja1105, we also
> implement a more limited set of flow-based policing keys for this
> switch, namely for broadcast and VLAN PCP.
>
> Series version 1 was submitted here:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1263353/
>
> Nothing functional changed in v2, only a rebase.

This looks fine to me, series applied, thanks.