linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: sched: avoid duplicates in qdisc dump

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:39:31 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: sched: avoid duplicates in qdisc dump

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
>
> tc_dump_qdisc() performs dumping of the per-device qdiscs in two phases;
> first, the "standard" dev->qdisc is being dumped. Second, if there is/are
> ingress queue(s), they are being dumped as well.
>
> After conversion of netdevice's qdisc linked-list into hashtable, these
> two sets are not in two disjunctive sets/lists any more, but are both
> "reachable" directly from netdevice's hashtable. As a consequence, the
> "full-depth" dump of the ingress qdiscs results in immediately hitting the
> netdevice hashtable again, and duplicating the dump that has already been
> performed for dev->qdisc.
> What in fact needs to be dumped in case of ingress queue is "just" the
> top-level ingress qdisc, as everything else has been dumped already.

Doesn't this mean we can now just remove the ingress case from
tc_dump_qdisc() and simply iterate the whole hash table?