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From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>, Cake List <cake@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cake] CAKE related iproute2 & kernel patches - keeping things in sync
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:41:57 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOp4FwSBGb6O5T-PuSVf5MY5v744UhiS1NRYC3ORiWbb_DY9vg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E8EEDB29-B4FE-4BAD-A027-1058DE2A7A1E@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> On 30 Jul 2018, at 00:42, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:05 AM Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
>> <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> To whom it may concern (Dave) ;-)
>>>
>>> This is a general plea that when patches are submitted to upstream please can we also commit them to our current development repositories.
>>
>> Mea culpa. I was hiding under my desk expecting the 10GigE+ world to
>> unite and march upon me, torches ablaze and, while gearing up for
>> battle there, collecting data on how bql and split-gso interacted at
>> various speeds, I didn't expect davem to just take the darn patch.
>
> They’re gathering firewood….and petrol tankers :-)
> Actually I too was pretty surprised to see it committed.
>
>
>> I have this whole lovely, giant, rant ,and plots that I'm not gonna be
>> motivated to finish now.
>>
>> This does raise a long term point however in that as we go mainline
>> more tweaks and patches *will* arrive
>> via normal linux kernel processes from others. Do you want maintainership there?
>
> Personally, Noooo! :-)  This sounds like backports territory.  And I’m back to that idea of dropping the kmod package and introducing cake via a kernel patch for openwrt.   *shudder*
>
>
>>
>>> 4.19 isn’t even released yet, so most people, including Openwrt, get cake via our 'out of tree’ repositories.  This is also a good idea from a point of view of testing.  I appreciate the latest changes are of ‘one line’ type variety and so mostly harmless but ideally it should at least be in our own out of tree repo’s first/at the same time.
>>>
>>> I had to submit the latest ‘split-gso by default’ patch, accepted to upstream, manually to our own cake repo for Toke to commit.  I note with some distress that there’s an ‘iproute2’ upstream patch pending to enable the userspace side of the same thing that currently is NOT in the ‘tc-adv’ repo.
>>>
>>> Dare I also suggest that a man page update would be appreciated by iproute2-next too.
>>
>> I started reviewing the man page's gobble of troff, started writing a
>> tuning section (and decided that needed a web page), went looking for
>> other missing keywords, and... we haven't heard from logan in a
>> while... my back is covered with black jube jells and dust bunnies
>> from hiding under my desk.
>>

Will find time to update the man page :)



>> and I dunno, has anyone read the man page lately? There's a HUGE
>> opportunity to bikeshed there.
>
> Lord no, not the bikeshed!  I was more thinking of including the two new keywords that had been introduced….. not going wild   :-)
>
> Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-30 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-29 10:05 Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2018-07-29 23:42 ` Dave Taht
2018-07-30 15:07   ` Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2018-07-30 15:41     ` Loganaden Velvindron [this message]
2018-07-30 17:23       ` [Cake] man page bikeshed Dave Taht
2018-07-30 17:39         ` Dave Taht

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