[Cake] Announce - possible new feature - DSCP cleaning

[Dave Taht]

I grok...

short rate_overhead;// kind of stands out. s16 is the equivalent....

so the intent here is to have the rate flags get twiddled by userspace
to enable squashing
separately? one "feature" of squashing the old way was we did not need
to allocate more than
one tin...
Dave Täht
Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> tin_cnt *is* u16, in fact struct cake_sched_data has been restored to
> the same state as it was before I introduced 'u8 squash'.
>
> On 16/11/15 17:59, Dave Taht wrote:
>> yes and nooo..... I thought tin_cnt needed to be a 10 bit number at
>> least.... (did it become an 8 bitter somewhere?)
>>
>>
>> but I have not looked at the code in quite some time. Tomorrow I hope
>> to finally have a fresh head.
>>
>> Right now I'm merely wrestling with getting a build to complete.
>> Dave Täht
>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
>> https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
>> <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>>> Does this
>>> https://github.com/dtaht/sch_cake/commit/d05cf7e003d9c13d8382c881655807bda7ab3616
>>> improve your happiness factor?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> On 16/11/15 15:57, Dave Taht wrote:
>>>> isn't there some other boolean variable somewhere ?
>>>>
>>>> Dave Täht
>>>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
>>>> https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
>>>> <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On 16/11/15 15:03, Dave Taht wrote:
>>>>>> I have not been doing any active development until... tomorrow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A goal I have for today is to actually build a version of openwrt +
>>>>>> all this stuff for the linksys ac1200.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was not particularly huge on using another field (q->squash) to
>>>>>> trigger squashing, and I cannot come up with a use case that makes
>>>>>> sense to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Under what circumstances do you think separating these two functions
>>>>>> to be useful?
>>>>> I wanted to be able to use diffserv marking for internal bandwidth
>>>>> policing purposes whilst clearing those bits by the time they hit the
>>>>> ISP.  On ingress it makes no sense, on egress I can see a use.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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