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>
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Ido Schimmel
2020-05-29 21:36:36 +03:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent af0a2482fa
commit 678eb199cc
3 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -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