netdev - Re: net_sched 00/07: classful multiqueue dummy scheduler

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Message-ID: <4AA14377.9020200@trash.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:42:31 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net_sched 00/07: classful multiqueue dummy scheduler

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> These patches contain a classful multiqueue ("mq") dummy scheduler to fix a
> couple of problems with the current multiqueue TC API integration. The
> changelogs of patch 05 and 07 contain more details.
> 
> The mq scheduler does two things:
> 
> - present device TX queues as classes, allowing to attach different qdiscs
>   to them, which are grafted to the TX queues
> 
> - present accumulated statistics of all device queue root qdiscs
> 
> Its used by default for multiqueue devices instead of the regular pfifo_fast
> qdisc, but can also be attached manually to restore multiqueue behaviour
> after attaching a non-multiqueue (shared) qdisc.
> 
> Patches 1-4 contain some preparatory cleanups because I was getting tired
> of copying unnecessary checks and dummy functions :)
> 
> Patch 5 introduces a dev->qdisc pointer, which points to the root qdisc from
> userspace's point of view. This is later used for the mq qdisc, which isn't
> actually attached to any device queues. Patch 7 contains the mq scheduler.
> 
> I've tested the scheduler with a hacked macvlan version which uses 4 queues,
> but since I don't own a multiqueue capable device I couldn't test this on
> real hardware.

And for reference, this is the script I used for testing:


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