[Cake] cake srchost/dsthost stopped working?

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 07:36:43 EDT 2021


On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 14:14, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via Cake
<cake at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Pete Heist <pete at heistp.net> writes:
>
> > One more tip, reverting this commit seems to fix it:
> >
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b0c19ed6088ab41dd2a727b60594b7297c15d6ce
>
> Ah, I think I see what the problem is; could you please try the patch
> below?
>
> -Toke
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cake.c b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
> index 951542843cab..a83c4d4326da 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_cake.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
> @@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static u32 cake_hash(struct cake_tin_data *q, const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  skip_hash:
>         if (flow_override)
>                 flow_hash = flow_override - 1;
> -       else if (use_skbhash)
> +       else if (use_skbhash && flow_mode & CAKE_FLOW_FLOWS)
>                 flow_hash = skb->hash;
>         if (host_override) {
>                 dsthost_hash = host_override - 1;

Good catch - I was going to have to wade in and remind myself how this
lump of code worked.  But shouldn't the masking operation be in
brackets, to make the precedence explicit?

 - Jonathan Morton


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