netdev - Re: [Patch net-next v2] sch_htb: redefine htb qdisc overlimits

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 05 May 2019 21:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v2] sch_htb: redefine htb qdisc overlimits

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Sat,  4 May 2019 11:43:42 -0700

> In commit 3c75f6ee139d ("net_sched: sch_htb: add per class overlimits counter")
> we added an overlimits counter for each HTB class which could
> properly reflect how many times we use up all the bandwidth
> on each class. However, the overlimits counter in HTB qdisc
> does not, it is way bigger than the sum of each HTB class.
> In fact, this qdisc overlimits counter increases when we have
> no skb to dequeue, which happens more often than we run out of
> bandwidth.
> 
> It makes more sense to make this qdisc overlimits counter just
> be a sum of each HTB class, in case people still get confused.
> 
> I have verified this patch with one single HTB class, where HTB
> qdisc counters now always match HTB class counters as expected.
> 
> Eric suggested we could fold this field into 'direct_pkts' as
> we only use its 32bit on 64bit CPU, this saves one cache line.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Applied.