netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 12/13] net: sched: add support for TCQ_F_NOLOCK subqueues to sch

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Message-ID: <57B4F0CC.9020102@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:18:36 -0700
From:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, brouer@...hat.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 12/13] net: sched: add support for TCQ_F_NOLOCK
 subqueues to sch_mq

On 16-08-17 04:04 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 12:38 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
>> The sch_mq qdisc creates a sub-qdisc per tx queue which are then
>> called independently for enqueue and dequeue operations. However
>> statistics are aggregated and pushed up to the "master" qdisc.
>>
>> This patch adds support for any of the sub-qdiscs to be per cpu
>> statistic qdiscs. To handle this case add a check when calculating
>> stats and aggregate the per cpu stats if needed.
>>
>> Also exports __gnet_stats_copy_queue() to use as a helper function.
> 
> 
> Looks like this patch should be happening earlier in the series ?
> 
> 

hmm yep patches 12 and 13 should come before 11 to avoid introducing
a bug and subsequently fixing them.