netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH 2/2] pkt_sched: Change PSCHED_SHIFT from 10 to 6
@ 2009-06-09  8:05 Jarek Poplawski
  2009-06-09 12:21 ` David Miller
  2009-06-15  9:15 ` [PATCH 3/2] pkt_sched: Rename PSCHED_US2NS and PSCHED_NS2US Jarek Poplawski
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jarek Poplawski @ 2009-06-09  8:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller
  Cc: Patrick McHardy, Antonio Almeida, Stephen Hemminger, netdev,
	Martin Devera, Eric Dumazet, Vladimir Ivashchenko,
	Badalian Vyacheslav

Change PSCHED_SHIFT from 10 to 6 to increase schedulers time
resolution. This will increase 16x a number of (internal) ticks per
nanosecond, and is needed to improve accuracy of schedulers based on
rate tables, like HTB, TBF or CBQ, with rates above 100Mbit. It is
assumed this change is safe for 32bit accounting of time diffs up
to 2 minutes, which should be enough for common use (extremely low
rate values may overflow, so get inaccurate instead). To make full
use of this change an updated iproute2 will be needed. (But using
older iproute2 should be safe too.)

This change breaks ticks - microseconds similarity, so some minor code
fixes might be needed. It is also planned to change naming adequately
eg. to PSCHED_TICKS2NS() etc. in the near future.

Reported-by: Antonio Almeida <vexwek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Antonio Almeida <vexwek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
---

diff -Nurp a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h	2009-06-08 23:06:31.000000000 +0200
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h	2009-06-08 23:23:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ static inline void *qdisc_priv(struct Qd
 typedef u64	psched_time_t;
 typedef long	psched_tdiff_t;
 
-/* Avoid doing 64 bit divide by 1000 */
-#define PSCHED_SHIFT			10
+/* Avoid doing 64 bit divide */
+#define PSCHED_SHIFT			6
 #define PSCHED_US2NS(x)			((s64)(x) << PSCHED_SHIFT)
 #define PSCHED_NS2US(x)			((x) >> PSCHED_SHIFT)
 

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2009-06-15  9:32 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2009-06-09  8:05 [PATCH 2/2] pkt_sched: Change PSCHED_SHIFT from 10 to 6 Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-09 12:21 ` David Miller
2009-06-15  9:15 ` [PATCH 3/2] pkt_sched: Rename PSCHED_US2NS and PSCHED_NS2US Jarek Poplawski
2009-06-15  9:32   ` David Miller

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).