netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Add SKB Priority qdisc support in tc(8)

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Message-ID: <96219f3e-4e14-6800-f24a-1c1993aa4da4@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:45:29 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Nishanth Devarajan <ndev2021@...il.com>, stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, doucette@...edu, michel@...irati.com.br
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Add SKB Priority qdisc support in tc(8)

On 8/8/18 12:24 PM, Nishanth Devarajan wrote:
> sch_skbprio is a qdisc that prioritizes packets according to their skb->priority
> field. Under congestion, it drops already-enqueued lower priority packets 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Devarajan <ndev2021@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michel Machado <michel@...irati.com.br>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h |  7 ++++
>  man/man8/tc-skbprio.8          | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tc/Makefile                    |  1 +
>  tc/q_skbprio.c                 | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 159 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 man/man8/tc-skbprio.8
>  create mode 100644 tc/q_skbprio.c
> 

Does not apply cleanly to iproute2-next. Also, you have a couple of
lines > 80 columns that can be easily corrected.