Re: [RFC] batched tc to improve change throughput

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:23:12 +0100
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:

> While collecting performance numbers for the ematch changes
> I realized that the throughput of changes per second is
> almost only limited by the cost of starting the tc binary
> over and over. In order to improve this, batching of commands
> is required. My plan to do so is quite simple, introduce
> a new flag -f which puts tc into batched mode and makes
> it read commands from stdin. A bison based parser splits
> things into tokens, the grammer would be quite easy:
> 
> INPUT ::= { /* empty */ | CMDS }
> CMDS  ::= { CMD | CMD ';' CMDS }
> CMD   ::= ARGS
> ARGS  ::= { STRING | STRING ARGS }
> 
> The lexical part can be made to ignore c-syle and
> shell-style comments, i.e.
> 
> ---
> #!/sbin/tc -f
> 
> /* some comments here */
> qdisc add ..
> class ...
> 
> # shell like comments also possible
> filter add ... basic match ...
> ---
> 
> Of course this loses ability to use shell features like
> variables and loops and it's probably not worth trying
> to emulate things. One can always generate these tc scripts
> with the help of other tools like m4, you name it.
> 
> This could also be applied to ip of course.
> 
> Thoughts?


I have no problem with -f input, but don't turn it into a full blown
interpreter. There are enuf messy scripting languages already.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger	<shemminger@osdl.org>