[Cake] Announce - possible new feature - DSCP cleaning

[Dave Taht]

we can break anything until it goes upstream. I'm not satisified with
the api (or wasn't 2 months back)....
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 9:09 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> It is pushed but in a 'squash' branch for review purposes before it gets
> merged into master.
>
> Let me ask things in a different way, and as I've had time to think
> about the implications of these changes:  By changing how 'squash' is
> enabled I've currently broken backwards compatibility between 'new
> squash' cake and 'old squash' tc.  Now, bearing in mind that this isn't
> upstream yet...how concerned are we/should I be for 'new cake' vs 'old
> tc' compatibility?  Again having thought about it more, I'm pretty sure
> I can make 'new cake' and 'old tc' work....is it worth the bother?
>
> Kevin
>
> On 16/11/15 18:47, Dave Taht wrote:
>> push it then.
>> 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 7:43 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
>> <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16/11/15 18:35, Dave Taht wrote:
>>>> switch (q->tin_mode) { case CAKE_MODE_SQUASH: case
>>>> CAKE_MODE_BESTEFFORT: default: cake_config_besteffort(sch); break;
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>> Dave Täht
>>>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
>>>> https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
>>>>
>>> Are you sure you're looking at the 'squash' branch Dave?  The 'smarts'
>>> of automatically selecting 'besteffort' in the presence of 'squash' has
>>> been put into 'tc'.  Thus 'squash' on its own behaves as it always did
>>> for backwards compatibility.  'squash' in combination with
>>> 'diffserv4/precedence' etc also works as expected.
>>>
>>> There's also a 'nosquash' option to disable squashing on a 'tc change'
>>> if required.  That code now looks like:
>>>
>>>         switch (q->tin_mode) {
>>>         case CAKE_MODE_BESTEFFORT:
>>>         default:
>>>                 cake_config_besteffort(sch);
>>>                 break;
>>> ........
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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