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| author | Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> | 2020-05-29 21:36:36 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-01 11:49:23 -0700 |
| commit | 678eb199cc9df3bf1cb12fb2da22768b8d1b6bf3 (patch) | |
| tree | 37ae396c02f917f23181ef79911ba580258e57be /Documentation/networking/devlink | |
| parent | af0a2482fa0fe04c63cc63f6d064f011865385fd (diff) | |
devlink: Create dedicated trap group for layer 3 exceptions
Packets that hit exceptions during layer 3 forwarding must be trapped to
the CPU for the control plane to function properly. Create a dedicated
group for them, so that user space could choose to assign a different
policer for them.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst index fe089acb7783..4ca241e70064 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-trap.rst @@ -277,8 +277,11 @@ narrow. The description of these groups must be added to the following table: - Contains packet traps for packets that were dropped by the device during layer 2 forwarding (i.e., bridge) * - ``l3_drops`` - - Contains packet traps for packets that were dropped by the device or hit - an exception (e.g., TTL error) during layer 3 forwarding + - Contains packet traps for packets that were dropped by the device during + layer 3 forwarding + * - ``l3_exceptions`` + - Contains packet traps for packets that hit an exception (e.g., TTL + error) during layer 3 forwarding * - ``buffer_drops`` - Contains packet traps for packets that were dropped by the device due to an enqueue decision |