[Cake] CAKE related iproute2 & kernel patches - keeping things in sync

[Loganaden Velvindron]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
<kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
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>> On 30 Jul 2018, at 00:42, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:05 AM Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
>> <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
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>>> To whom it may concern (Dave) ;-)
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>>> This is a general plea that when patches are submitted to upstream please can we also commit them to our current development repositories.
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>> 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.
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> They’re gathering firewood….and petrol tankers :-)
> Actually I too was pretty surprised to see it committed.
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>> I have this whole lovely, giant, rant ,and plots that I'm not gonna be
>> motivated to finish now.
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>> 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?
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> 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*
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Dare I also suggest that a man page update would be appreciated by iproute2-next too.
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>> 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.
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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.
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> Lord no, not the bikeshed!  I was more thinking of including the two new keywords that had been introduced….. not going wild   :-)
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> Kevin