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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v3] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:58:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D653C9C.8010205@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298479711.3301.373.camel@edumazet-laptop>

Am 23.02.2011 17:48, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 17:24 +0100, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> 
>> This needs to be a per-skb property, otherwise you could have the
>> situation:
>>
>> - enqueue skb, double_buffering=0, increment buffer 0
>> - enable double buffering
>> - swap buffers
>> - dequeue same skb, decrement buffer 1
>>
>> after which the qlen values of buffer 1 will be incorrect.
>>
> 
> Normally its OK, because we bzero() the zone, and the "decrement" is
> 0-bounded.

Yeah, but we might decrement buckets of different flows which
are non-zero. Probably not too bad, but still not correct.

> I had this idea (of storing two bits per skb), but :
> 
> - It means that swap_buffer() should not touch (bzero) the 'old' bins

Yes, it means we have to properly decrement the old buffer
until all bins reached zero.

> - Since hash perturbator is changed, we have to store the two hash
> values per skb (instead of one u32 / classid).

Indeed.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-23 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110221160306.GA9650@tuxdriver.com>
     [not found] ` <1298308283.2849.5.camel@edumazet-laptop>
     [not found]   ` <1298390536.2861.9.camel@edumazet-laptop>
2011-02-23 15:14     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v3] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 15:43       ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-23 16:13         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 16:20           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-23 16:24       ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-23 16:48         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 16:58           ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-02-23 17:16             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 17:05         ` [PATCH] net_sched: long word align struct qdisc_skb_cb data Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 17:30           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-23 22:17             ` David Miller
2011-02-23 20:56       ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v4] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 21:11         ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-23 21:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 21:30             ` David Miller
2011-02-23 22:06         ` David Miller
2011-02-24  5:40           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-24  6:51             ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-24  7:14               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-24  7:18                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 17:44               ` [PATCH iproute2] tc : " Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 21:59                 ` Stephen Hemminger

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