netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] Multi-queue aware sch

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Message-ID: <87cy51bxe1.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:33:26 +0100
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jamal Hadi Salim
 <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Jonas Köppeler
 <j.koeppeler@...berlin.de>, cake@...ts.bufferbloat.net,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] Multi-queue aware sch_cake

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:27:49 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> > Is there any chance you could provide selftests for this new qdisc
>> > together with this patchset?
>> >
>> > I guess iproute2 is the main blocker?  
>> 
>> Yeah; how about I follow up with a selftest after this has been merged
>> into both the kernel and iproute2?
>
> Why is iproute2 a blocker? Because you're not sure if the "API" won't
> change or because you're worried about NIPA or.. ?

No, just that the patch that adds the new qdisc to iproute2 needs to be
merged before the selftests can use them. Which they won't be until the
kernel patches are merged, so we'll have to follow up with the selftests
once that has happened. IIUC, at least :)

-Toke