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Ido Schimmel says:

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mlxsw: Add support for buffer drop traps

Petr says:

A recent patch set added the ability to mirror buffer related drops
(e.g., early drops) through a netdev. This patch set adds the ability to
trap such packets to the local CPU for analysis.

The trapping towards the CPU is configured by using tc-trap action
instead of tc-mirred as was done when the packets were mirrored through
a netdev. A future patch set will also add the ability to sample the
dropped packets using tc-sample action.

The buffer related drop traps are added to devlink, which means that the
dropped packets can be reported to user space via the kernel's
drop_monitor module.

Patch set overview:

Patch #1 adds the early_drop trap to devlink

Patch #2 adds extack to a few devlink operations to facilitate better
error reporting to user space. This is necessary - among other things -
because the action of buffer drop traps cannot be changed in mlxsw

Patch #3 performs a small refactoring in mlxsw, patch #4 fixes a bug that
this patchset would trigger.

Patches #5-#6 add the infrastructure required to support different traps
/ trap groups in mlxsw per-ASIC. This is required because buffer drop
traps are not supported by Spectrum-1

Patch #7 extends mlxsw to register the early_drop trap

Patch #8 adds the offload logic for the "trap" action at a qevent block.

Patch #9 adds a mlxsw-specific selftest.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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