netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net/sched: add skbprio scheduler

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:44:09 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Nishanth Devarajan <ndev2021@...il.com>
Cc:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jhs@...atatu.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, doucette@...edu,
        michel@...irati.com.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net/sched: add skbprio scheduler

On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 03:43:55PM +0530, Nishanth Devarajan wrote:
> net/sched: add skbprio scheduer
> 
> Skbprio (SKB Priority Queue) is a queueing discipline that prioritizes packets
> according to their skb->priority field. Under congestion, already-enqueued lower
> priority packets will be dropped to make space available for higher priority
> packets. Skbprio was conceived as a solution for denial-of-service defenses that
> need to route packets with different priorities as a means to overcome DoS
> attacks.

Why can't we implement this as a new flag for sch_prio.c?

I don't see why this duplication is needed, especially because it will
only be "slower" (as in, it will do more work) when qdisc is already
full and dropping packets anyway.

  Marcelo