[Cake] [PATCH 0/4] sched: Fix qdisc interactions exposed by using sch_cake as a leaf qdisc

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jan 8 16:30:53 EST 2019


From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>
Date: Mon,  7 Jan 2019 20:47:29 +0100

> This series fixes a couple of issues exposed by running sch_cake as a
> leaf qdisc in an HFSC tree, which were discovered and reported by Pete
> Heist. The interaction between CAKE's GSO splitting and the parent
> qdisc's notion of its own queue length could cause queue stalls. While
> investigating the report, I also noticed that several qdiscs would
> dereference the skb pointer after dequeue, which is potentially
> problematic since the GSO splitting code also frees the original skb.
> 
> See the individual patches in the series for details.

Toke, can you please resubmit this without patch #3.

If you want to push for patch #3 still, it is much easier to submit
it separately.


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