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authorPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>2013-03-05 08:05:00 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-03-06 02:47:05 -0500
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pkt_sched: sch_qfq: prevent budget from wrapping around after a dequeue
Aggregate budgets are computed so as to guarantee that, after an aggregate has been selected for service, that aggregate has enough budget to serve at least one maximum-size packet for the classes it contains. For this reason, after a new aggregate has been selected for service, its next packet is immediately dequeued, without any further control. The maximum packet size for a class, lmax, can be changed through qfq_change_class(). In case the user sets lmax to a lower value than the the size of some of the still-to-arrive packets, QFQ+ will automatically push up lmax as it enqueues these packets. This automatic push up is likely to happen with TSO/GSO. In any case, if lmax is assigned a lower value than the size of some of the packets already enqueued for the class, then the following problem may occur: the size of the next packet to dequeue for the class may happen to be larger than lmax, after the aggregate to which the class belongs has been just selected for service. In this case, even the budget of the aggregate, which is an unsigned value, may be lower than the size of the next packet to dequeue. After dequeueing this packet and subtracting its size from the budget, the latter would wrap around. This fix prevents the budget from wrapping around after any packet dequeue. Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it> Reviewed-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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