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Message-ID: <55396E70.2080908@plumgrid.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:13:04 -0700
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] tc: deprecate TC_ACT_QUEUED
On 4/23/15 1:45 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
> 1) the _XMIT semantics are useful on the egress side because in fact
> we do have queues and they can be attached to qdiscs etc.
> The TC_ACT_XXX codes were _intentional_ since ingress works as a
> classifier shell.
then it is worse mess than I thought :(
Why call it _qdisc_ then? and have special and convoluted handling for
it in qdisc_create, qdisc_graft and other places?
> Are you planning to queue things on ingress?
I thought that was the whole purpose of ingress qdisc.
why then we have dev->ingress_queue?
If queueing was never a goal, may be we should kill ingress qdisc
and replace it with a simple shim that only does cls/act.
The code overall will get much simpler and faster.
Feels like falling into rabbit hole.
> The fact that qdiscs dealt with these codes directly
> allows for specialized handling. Moving them to a generic function
> seems to defeat that purpose. So I am siding with Cong on this.
that's not what patch 1 is doing. It is still doing specialized
handling... but in light of what you said above, it looks like much
bigger cleanup is needed. We'll continue arguing when I refactor
this set and resubmit when net-next reopens.
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