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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 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
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