netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 05/15] net: sched: a dflt qdisc may be used with per cpu stats

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:08:28 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, davem@...emloft.net, brouer@...hat.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
        john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 05/15] net: sched: a dflt qdisc may be used
 with per cpu stats

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 10:50 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 16-08-24 10:26 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 10:13 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> > 
> >>>
> >>
> >> I could fully allocate it in qdisc_alloc() but we don't know if the
> >> qdisc needs per cpu data structures until after the init call
> > 
> > Should not we have a flag to advertise the need of per spu stats on
> > qdisc ?
> > 
> > This is not clear why ->init() can know this, and not its caller.
> > 
> 
> sure we could be a static_flags field in the ops structure. What do
> you think about doing that?

This is what I was suggesting yes.

> 
> We would still need some flags to be set at init though like the bypass
> bit it looks like some qdiscs set that based on user input.
>