Re: [PATCH net-next] net:sched: add gkprio scheduler

[Nishanth Devarajan <ndev2021@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 10:24:51PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:36 AM, Nishanth Devarajan <ndev2021@gmail.com> wrote:
> > net/sched: add gkprio scheduler
> >
> > Gkprio (Gatekeeper Priority Queue) is a queueing discipline that prioritizes
> > IPv4 and IPv6 packets accordingly to their DSCP field. Although Gkprio can be
> > employed in any QoS scenario in which a higher DSCP field means a higher
> > priority packet, Gkprio was concieved as a solution for denial-of-service
> > defenses that need to route packets with different priorities.
> 
> 
> Can we give it a better name? "Gatekeeper" is meaningless if we read
> it alone, it ties to your Gatekeeper project which is more than just this
> kernel module. Maybe "DS Priority Queue"?
> 

Yes, we should be able to come up with a better name, we'll work on it.

> Overall it looks good to me, just one thing below:
> 
> > +struct Qdisc_ops gkprio_qdisc_ops __read_mostly = {
> > +       .id             =       "gkprio",
> > +       .priv_size      =       sizeof(struct gkprio_sched_data),
> > +       .enqueue        =       gkprio_enqueue,
> > +       .dequeue        =       gkprio_dequeue,
> > +       .peek           =       qdisc_peek_dequeued,
> > +       .init           =       gkprio_init,
> > +       .reset          =       gkprio_reset,
> > +       .change         =       gkprio_change,
> > +       .dump           =       gkprio_dump,
> > +       .destroy        =       gkprio_destroy,
> > +       .owner          =       THIS_MODULE,
> > +};
> 
> You probably want to add Qdisc_class_ops here so that you can
> dump the stats of each internal queue.

Alright, will make some changes and send in a v2.

Thanks,
Nishanth