Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: implement egress tbf qdisc for 6393x family

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:53:06PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:13 PM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Sunil,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 12:04:56PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> > > For setting up simple per-port ratelimit, instead of TBF isn't "egress
> > > matchall" suitable here ?
> >
> > "matchall" is a filter. What would be the associated action for a
> > port-level shaper?
> 
> As Alexis mentioned I was referring to "matchall + policer".

The idea would be to pick a software representation which matches the
hardware behavior. A policer drops excess packets, a shaper queues them.
This hardware supports some sort of egress rate shaping.