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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] tc: fix return values of ingress qdisc
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:46:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150423084612.GH21799@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHA+R7ODYz4Awh-HuxARktS2vdUa_pEbN_8DZY1Qk4mH7vd=9Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/22/15 at 04:29pm, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:
> > On 4/21/15 9:59 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ingress qdisc should return NET_XMIT_* values just like all other qdiscs.
> >>>
> >>
> >> XMIT already means egress...
> >
> >
> > may be then it should be renamed as well.
> > from include/linux/netdevice.h:
> > /* qdisc ->enqueue() return codes. */
> > #define NET_XMIT_SUCCESS        0x00
> > ...
> >
> > the point is that qdisc->enqeue() must return NET_XMIT_* values.
> > ingress qdisc is violating this and therefore should be fixed.
> 
> XMIT is non-sense for ingress, you really need to pick another
> name for it if TC_ACT_OK isn't okay for you (it is okay for me).

You transmit into a qdisc. If that terminology doesn't suit
you then rename it to NET_QUEUE_* but moving away from returning
TC_ACT_* is definitely the right thing to do here.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-23  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-21 19:27 [RFC 0/3] tc cleanup? Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-21 19:27 ` [RFC 1/3] tc: fix return values of ingress qdisc Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22  4:59   ` Cong Wang
2015-04-22 22:04     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22 23:29       ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23  8:46         ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-04-21 19:27 ` [RFC 2/3] tc: deprecate TC_ACT_QUEUED Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22  5:02   ` Cong Wang
2015-04-22  7:43     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-22 22:22     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22 23:39       ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23  2:46         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-23  7:13           ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-23 18:12           ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23 18:21             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-23 18:30               ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23 20:45       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-23 21:20         ` Florian Westphal
2015-04-23 22:13         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-23 22:33           ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23 22:51           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-24  0:59             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-24  3:37               ` Cong Wang
2015-04-24  8:12                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-27 12:31               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-21 19:27 ` [RFC 3/3] tc: cleanup tc_classify Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22  5:05   ` Cong Wang
2015-04-22 22:27     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-22 23:38       ` Cong Wang
2015-04-23  8:49         ` Thomas Graf

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