Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: sched: convert qdisc linked list to hashtable

On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Cong Wang wrote:

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How about we actually extend a little bit the TCQ_F_BUILTIN special case
test in qdisc_match_from_root()?

After the change, the only way how qdisc_dev() could be NULL should be a
TCQ_F_BUILTIN case, right?

I was thinking about something like the patch below (the reasong being
that ->dev would be NULL only in cases of singletonish qdiscs) ...
wouldn't that also fix the issue you're seeing? Have to think it through a
little bit more ..

I think this is probably why we never show noop qdisc in dump. 

Well, partially. A lot of 'default' qdiscs are omitted in a not really 
uniform and deterministic way. That's actually the primary point of this 
whole effort -- to get rid of the hidden qdiscs entirely.

So I think we should relax the singleton rule for noop_qdisc, to save 
some code for noop_qdisc case and also for dumping noop_qdisc.

Completely moving away from singleton qdiscs is one of the possibilities, 
but OTOH I think that my special-casing of !qdisc_dev(root) in 
qdisc_match_from_root() is correct handling of singletons. I've been 
completely off the grid for the past three days, but I plan to submit this 
as a proper followup fix tomorrow if noone has any objections.

I will try to work on a patch tomorrow.

What still needs to be looked into are the duplicate clsact entries for 
multiqueue.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs