On 8/29/19 12:51 AM, David Dai 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 <z...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Dai <z...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h | 2 ++
> net/sched/act_police.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
> index b057aee..eb4ea4d 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
> @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ enum {
> TCA_POLICE_AVRATE,
> TCA_POLICE_RESULT,
> TCA_POLICE_TM,
> + TCA_POLICE_RATE64,
> + TCA_POLICE_PEAKRATE64,
> TCA_POLICE_PAD,
> __TCA_POLICE_MAX
> #define TCA_POLICE_RESULT TCA_POLICE_RESULT
Never insert new attributes, as this breaks compatibility with old binaries
(including
old kernels)
Keep TCA_POLICE_PAD value the same, thanks.
