netdev - Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler (v0.6)

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Message-ID: <20110112092739.4cdcb6f4@nehalam>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:27:39 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler (v0.6)

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:13:48 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen, here is my v0.6 version :
> 
> - Added sanity checks before kcalloc()/kzalloc()
> - Added a __GFP_NOWARN to kcalloc()
> - Added call to qdisc_bstats_update() after commit bfe0d0298f2a67d94d5
> (net_sched: factorize qdisc stats handling)
> 
> TODO :
> - Added a stat specific update to track CHOKe probabilistic dual-drops
>   I temporarily use requeues counter to make sure our code works

I am going to redo stats and config.
Should thresholds be packet or byte based? I prefer packet
Also leaning towards merging qmax and qlimit together.
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