On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 07:01:19PM +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> Hi
>
> This series first adds supports for the ALE feature to rate limit number ingress
> broadcast(BC)/multicast(MC) packets per/sec which main purpose is BC/MC storm
> prevention.
>
> And then enables corresponding support for ingress broadcast(BC)/multicast(MC)
> packets rate limiting for TI CPSW switchdev and AM65x/J221E CPSW_NUSS drivers by
> implementing HW offload for simple tc-flower with policer action with matches
> on dst_mac:
> - ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff has to be used for BC packets rate limiting
> - 01:00:00:00:00:00 fixed value has to be used for MC packets rate limiting
>
> Examples:
> - BC rate limit to 1000pps:
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact
> tc filter add dev eth0 ingress flower skip_sw dst_mac ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff \
> action police pkts_rate 1000 pkts_burst 1
>
> - MC rate limit to 20000pps:
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 clsact
> tc filter add dev eth0 ingress flower skip_sw dst_mac 01:00:00:00:00:00 \
> action police pkts_rate 10000 pkts_burst 1
>
> pkts_burst - not used.
>
> The solution inspired patch from Vladimir Oltean [1].
>
> Changes in v2:
> - switch to packet-per-second policing introduced by
> commit 2ffe0395288a ("net/sched: act_police: add support for packet-per-second policing") [2]
>
> v1: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20201114035654.32658-1-grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx/
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1217254/
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/cover/20210312140831.23346-1-simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Grygorii Strashko (3):
> drivers: net: cpsw: ale: add broadcast/multicast rate limit support
> net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: enable bc/mc storm prevention support
> net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_new: enable bc/mc storm prevention support
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-qos.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-qos.h | 8 ++
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c | 66 +++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.h | 2 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c | 4 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.c | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_priv.h | 8 ++
> 7 files changed, 402 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
I don't think I've asked this for v1, but when you say multicast storm
control, does the hardware police just unknown multicast frames, or all
multicast frames?
