[Cake] Using firewall connmarks as tin selectors

[Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant]

> On 28 Feb 2019, at 09:54, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> I also equally aware that this is ‘creeping featuritis’ and doing
>> nothing to speed cake up…
> 
> Yeah, this is the crux of the issue, really: it's a tradeoff between
> ease of use and featuritis. Now in this case the actual impact is a
> single check it might actually be acceptable
> 
>> actually I may have improved BESTEFFORT a little - we no longer look
>> for matching TC Major numbers if there’s no actual choice of tin to be
>> made :-)
> 
> Well, you made the besteffort case slightly faster, but every other mode
> slightly slower... :)

Ah, ok, tc filter really is king ;-)

> 
> If you are going to send a patch (or pull request), please leave out the
> refactoring, and only include the feature. This makes it easier to see
> the impact of the feature addition on its own.

Ha ha, sending a patch to the kernel lists???  Never again!

The non-refactored version is https://github.com/ldir-EDB0/sch_cake/commit/f30bb18adc97c827c81c9a3297ab14bfaf2adcb0 and I’ve created a PR

> 
> Also, I assume you have a companion patch for iproute2 somewhere?

In the first email: https://github.com/ldir-EDB0/tc-adv/commits/fwmark - based on 4.20.0 ‘cos that’s where openwrt is at the moment.  When I’ve found a suitable editor I was even going to update the man page!

> 
> -Toke


Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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