netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net/sched: Retire some tc qdiscs and classifiers

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Message-Id: <167653801965.11562.1845303984766011675.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:00:19 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net/sched: Retire some tc qdiscs and classifiers

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:49:10 -0500 you wrote:
> The CBQ + dsmark qdiscs and the tcindex + rsvp classifiers have served us for
> over 2 decades. Unfortunately, they have not been getting much attention due
> to reduced usage. While we dont have a good metric for tabulating how much use
> a specific kernel feature gets, for these specific features we observed that
> some of the functionality has been broken for some time and no users complained.
> In addition, syzkaller has been going to town on most of these and finding
> issues; and while we have been fixing those issues, at times it becomes obvious
> that we would need to perform bigger surgeries to resolve things found while
> getting a syzkaller fix in place. After some discussion we feel that in order
> to reduce the maintenance burden it is best to retire them.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,1/5] net/sched: Retire CBQ qdisc
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/051d44209842
  - [net-next,2/5] net/sched: Retire ATM qdisc
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/fb38306ceb9e
  - [net-next,3/5] net/sched: Retire dsmark qdisc
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/bbe77c14ee61
  - [net-next,4/5] net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/8c710f75256b
  - [net-next,5/5] net/sched: Retire rsvp classifier
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/265b4da82dbf

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