netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: sched: drop all special handling of tx_queue

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Message-ID: <1027362736.325.1455717462229.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:57:42 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "net: sched: drop all special handling of
 tx_queue_len == 0"

----- On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:47 AM, Phil Sutter phil@....cc wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:56:23PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> This reverts commit 348e3435cbefa815bd56a5205c1412b5afe7b92e.
>> It breaks HTB classful qdiscs on the loopback interface.
>> 
>> It has been broken since kernel v4.2. The offending commit has
>> been identified by bissection of the issue with the following
>> test-case. It appears that the loopback interface does indeed
>> still have tx_queue_len == 0.
>> 
>> Reverting the commit on a v4.4.1 kernel fixes the issue.
> 
> Indeed, this is ugly. Affected are all drivers not calling ether_setup()
> in their setup callback, and therefore not initializing tx_queue_len.
> 
> As the commit to be reverted shows, there is no common fallback value
> for tx_queue_len - most qdisc implementations used 1, but HTB fell back
> to 2 and PLUG to 100. But as the removed comment in sch_plug.c stated:
> 
>| /* We will set a default limit of 100 pkts (~150kB)
>|  * in case tx_queue_len is not available. The
>|  * default value is completely arbitrary.
>|  */
> 
> It seems not to be overly important to fallback to the exact value each
> qdisc had before. Therefore I guess the following change should
> appropriately fix the issue at hand:
> 
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -7440,8 +7440,10 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv,
> const char *name,
>        dev->priv_flags = IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE_PERM;
>        setup(dev);
> 
> -       if (!dev->tx_queue_len)
> +       if (!dev->tx_queue_len) {
>                dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
> +               dev->tx_queue_len = 1;
> +       }
> 
>        dev->num_tx_queues = txqs;
>        dev->real_num_tx_queues = txqs;
> 
> Unless there is concern, I will formally submit this later.

Works for me!

Tested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Thanks, Phil

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com