netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net_sched: remove qdisc_is

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:37:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net_sched: remove qdisc_is_throttled()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:41:35 -0700

> HTB, CBQ and HFSC pay a very high cost updating the qdisc 'throttled'
> status that nothing but CBQ seems to use.
> 
> CBQ usage is flaky anyway, since no qdisc ->enqueue() updates the
> 'throttled' qdisc status.
> 
> This looks like some 'optimization' that actually cost more than code
> without the optimization, and might cause latency issues with CBQ.
> 
> In my tests, I could achieve a 8 % performance increase in TCP_RR
> workload through HTB qdisc, in presence of throttled classes,
> and 5 % without throttled classes.

Series applied, thanks.