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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	jiri@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/5] TC: Introduce qevents
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:56:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200626155617.7f6a4c4c@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1593209494.git.petrm@mellanox.com>

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 01:45:24 +0300
Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> wrote:

> The Spectrum hardware allows execution of one of several actions as a
> result of queue management decisions: tail-dropping, early-dropping,
> marking a packet, or passing a configured latency threshold or buffer
> size. Such packets can be mirrored, trapped, or sampled.
> 
> Modeling the action to be taken as simply a TC action is very attractive,
> but it is not obvious where to put these actions. At least with ECN marking
> one could imagine a tree of qdiscs and classifiers that effectively
> accomplishes this task, albeit in an impractically complex manner. But
> there is just no way to match on dropped-ness of a packet, let alone
> dropped-ness due to a particular reason.

Would a BPF based hook be more flexible and reuse more existing
infrastructure? 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-26 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-26 22:45 [PATCH net-next v1 0/5] TC: Introduce qevents Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next v1 1/5] net: sched: Pass root lock to Qdisc_ops.enqueue Petr Machata
2020-07-06 19:21   ` Cong Wang
2020-07-07 15:25     ` Petr Machata
2020-07-07 19:41       ` Cong Wang
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next v1 2/5] net: sched: Introduce helpers for qevent blocks Petr Machata
2020-07-06 19:48   ` Cong Wang
2020-07-07 15:22     ` Petr Machata
2020-07-07 19:13       ` Cong Wang
2020-07-08 12:35         ` Petr Machata
2020-07-08 16:21           ` Petr Machata
2020-07-08 19:09             ` Cong Wang
2020-07-08 19:04           ` Cong Wang
2020-07-08 21:04             ` Petr Machata
2020-07-09  0:13               ` Petr Machata
2020-07-09 19:37                 ` Cong Wang
2020-07-10 14:40                   ` Petr Machata
2020-07-14  2:51                     ` Cong Wang
2020-07-14  9:12                       ` Petr Machata
2020-07-07 19:48   ` Cong Wang
2020-07-08  9:19     ` Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next v1 3/5] net: sched: sch_red: Split init and change callbacks Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next v1 4/5] net: sched: sch_red: Add qevents "early_drop" and "mark" Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH net-next v1 5/5] selftests: forwarding: Add a RED test for SW datapath Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45 ` [PATCH iproute2-next v1 1/4] uapi: pkt_sched: Add two new RED attributes Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45   ` [PATCH iproute2-next v1 2/4] tc: Add helpers to support qevent handling Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45   ` [PATCH iproute2-next v1 3/4] man: tc: Describe qevents Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:45   ` [PATCH iproute2-next v1 4/4] tc: q_red: Add support for qevents "mark" and "early_drop" Petr Machata
2020-06-26 22:56 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-06-29 13:21   ` [PATCH net-next v1 0/5] TC: Introduce qevents Petr Machata
2020-06-30  0:15 ` David Miller

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