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

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Wed Jan 9 03:37:33 EST 2019


David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> writes:

> 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.

Can do :)

-Toke


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