From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@idosch.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:15:49 +0300
> From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@nvidia.com>
>
> Drop monitor is able to monitor both software and hardware originated
> drops. Software drops are monitored by having drop monitor register its
> probe on the 'kfree_skb' tracepoint. Hardware originated drops are
> monitored by having devlink call into drop monitor whenever it receives
> a dropped packet from the underlying hardware.
>
> This patch set converts drop monitor to monitor both software and
> hardware originated drops in the same way - by registering its probe on
> the relevant tracepoint.
>
> In addition to drop monitor being more consistent, it is now also
> possible to build drop monitor as module instead of as a builtin and
> still monitor hardware originated drops. Initially, CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK
> implied CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR, but after commit def2fbffe62c
> ("kconfig: allow symbols implied by y to become m") we can have
> CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK=y and CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR=m and hardware
> originated drops will not be monitored.
...
Series applied, thank you.
