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NAME
actions - independently defined actions in tc
SYNOPSIS
tc [ TC_OPTIONS ] actions add | change | replace ACTSPEC
tc [ TC_OPTIONS ] actions get | delete ACTISPEC
tc [ TC_OPTIONS ] actions flush ACTNAMESPEC
tc [ TC_OPTIONS ] actions ls | list ACTNAMESPEC [ ACTFILTER ]
ACTSPEC := action ACTDETAIL [ INDEXSPEC ] [ COOKIESPEC ] [ FLAGS ] [ HWSTATSSPEC ] [ CONTROL ] [
SKIPSPEC ]
ACTISPEC := ACTNAMESPEC INDEXSPEC
ACTNAMESPEC := action ACTNAME
INDEXSPEC := index INDEX
ACTFILTER := since MSTIME
COOKIESPEC := cookie COOKIE
FLAGS := no_percpu
HWSTATSSPEC := hw_stats { immediate | delayed | disabled }
ACTDETAIL := ACTNAME ACTPARAMS
ACTNAME may be any valid action type: gact, mirred, bpf, connmark, csum, police, etc.
MSTIME Time since last update.
CONTROL := { reclassify | pipe | drop | continue | ok }
SKIPSPEC := { skip_sw | skip_hw }
TC_OPTIONS These are the options that are specific to tc and not only the options. Refer to tc(8)
for more information.
DESCRIPTION
The actions object in tc allows a user to define actions independently of a classifier (filter). These
actions can then be assigned to one or more filters, with any packets matching the classifier's criteria
having that action performed on them.
Each action type (mirred, police, etc.) will have its own table to store all created actions.
OPERATIONS
add Create a new action in that action's table.
change
replace
Make modifications to an existing action.
get Display the action with the specified index value. When combined with the -s option for tc,
display the statistics for that action.
delete Delete the action with the specified index value. If the action is already associated with a
classifier, it does not delete the classifier.
ls
list List all the actions in the specified table. When combined with the -s option for tc, display the
statistics for all actions in the specified table. When combined with the option since allows
doing a millisecond time-filter since the last time an action was used in the datapath.
flush Delete all actions stored in the specified table.
ACTION OPTIONS
Note that these options are available to all action types.
index INDEX
Specify the table index value of an action. INDEX is a 32-bit value that is unique to the
specific type of action referenced.
For add, change, and replace operations, the index is optional. When adding a new action,
specifying an index value will assign the action to that index unless that index value has already
been assigned. Omitting the index value for an add operation will cause the kernel to assign a
value to the new action.
For get and delete operations, the index is required to identify the specific action to be
displayed or deleted.
cookie COOKIE
In addition to the specific action, mark the matching packet with the value specified by COOKIE.
The COOKIE is a 128-bit value that will not be interpreted by the kernel whatsoever. As such, it
can be used as a correlating value for maintaining user state. The value to be stored is
completely arbitrary and does not require a specific format. It is stored inside the action
structure itself.
FLAGS Action-specific flags. Currently, the only supported flag is no_percpu which indicates that action
is expected to have minimal software data-path traffic and doesn't need to allocate stat counters
with percpu allocator. This option is intended to be used by hardware-offloaded actions.
hw_stats HW_STATS
Specifies the type of HW stats of new action. If omitted, any stats counter type is going to be
used, according to driver and its resources. The HW_STATS indicates the type. Any of the
following are valid:
immediate
Means that in dump, user gets the current HW stats state from the device queried at the
dump time.
delayed
Means that in dump, user gets HW stats that might be out of date for some time, maybe
couple of seconds. This is the case when driver polls stats updates periodically or when it
gets async stats update from the device.
disabled
No HW stats are going to be available in dump.
since MSTIME
When dumping large number of actions, a millisecond time-filter can be specified MSTIME. The
MSTIME is a millisecond count since last time a packet hit the action. As an example specifying
"since 20000" implies to dump all actions that have seen packets in the last 20 seconds. This
option is useful when the kernel has a large number of actions and you are only interested in
recently used actions.
CONTROL
The CONTROL indicates how tc should proceed after executing the action. Any of the following are
valid:
reclassify
Restart the classifiction by jumping back to the first filter attached to the action's
parent.
pipe Continue with the next action. This is the default control.
drop Drop the packed without running any further actions.
continue
Continue the classification with the next filter.
pass Return to the calling qdisc for packet processing, and end classification of this packet.
SKIPSPEC
The SKIPSPEC indicates how tc should proceed when executing the action. Any of the following are
valid:
skip_sw
Do not process action by software. If hardware has no offload support for this action,
operation will fail.
skip_hw
Do not process action by hardware.
SEE ALSO
tc(8), tc-bpf(8), tc-connmark(8), tc-csum(8), tc-ife(8), tc-mirred(8), tc-nat(8), tc-pedit(8), tc-
police(8), tc-simple(8), tc-skbedit(8), tc-skbmod(8), tc-tunnel_key(8), tc-vlan(8), tc-xt(8)