linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] pkt_sched: fix little service anomalies and possible crashes of qfq+

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Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:13:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paolo.valente@...more.it
Cc:	jhs@...atatu.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rizzo@....unipi.it, fchecconi@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] pkt_sched: fix little service anomalies and
 possible crashes of qfq+

From: Paolo valente <paolo.valente@...more.it>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:31:06 +0100

> +	/*
> +	 * The next assignment may let
> +	 * agg->initial_budget > agg->budgetmax
> +	 * hold, but this does not cause any harm
> +	 */

Please format comments in the networking:

	/* Like
	 * this.
	 */

and

	/*
	 * Never
	 * like this.
	 */

I know this file is full of exceptions, but that error is to be
corrected rather than expanded.

> +	/*
> +	 * If lmax is lowered, through qfq_change_class, for a class
> +	 * owning pending packets with larger size than the new value of lmax,
> +	 * then the following condition may hold.
> +	 */

Likewise.

And I'm not applying this until someone familiar with this code
does some review of this patch.  These are seriously non-trivial
changes.
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