netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] Revert: "net: sched: put back q.qlen into a single location"

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Date:   Mon, 8 Apr 2019 14:17:43 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] Revert: "net: sched: put back q.qlen into a
 single location"



On 04/08/2019 09:35 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> This revert commit 46b1c18f9deb ("net: sched: put back q.qlen
> into a single location").
> After the previous patch nobody accesses directly qlen for a child
> qdisc when such qdisc does per CPU stats accounting.
> In the control path nobody uses directly qlen since commit
> 677f1bc207c ("net: sched: introduce and use qdisc tree flush/purge
> helpers"), so we can remove the contented atomic ops from the
> datapath.
>

Have you tested HTB with a pfifo_fast on a throttled class ?

I do not see any changes in HTB in your patch series, so it is not
clear why your patch series is not adding back the issue.