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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-02-19 01:24:22 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-02-19 01:24:22 -0500 |
| commit | 1e8d6421cff2c24fe0b345711e7a21af02e8bcf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 773b30106efb9b48055bc93958e5a94ac53768ce /net/sched | |
| parent | f7b12606b5de323a2bb5ca1696558efde8f25441 (diff) | |
| parent | 960dfc4eb23a28495276b02604d7458e0e1a1ed8 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.h
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
Two minor conflicts in bonding, both of which were overlapping
changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sched/sch_pie.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_pie.c b/net/sched/sch_pie.c index a255d0200a59..fefeeb73f15f 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_pie.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_pie.c @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ * * ECN support is added by Naeem Khademi <naeemk@ifi.uio.no> * University of Oslo, Norway. + * + * References: + * IETF draft submission: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pan-aqm-pie-00 + * IEEE Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing 2013 : + * "PIE: A * Lightweight Control Scheme to Address the Bufferbloat Problem" */ #include <linux/module.h> @@ -36,7 +41,7 @@ struct pie_params { psched_time_t target; /* user specified target delay in pschedtime */ u32 tupdate; /* timer frequency (in jiffies) */ u32 limit; /* number of packets that can be enqueued */ - u32 alpha; /* alpha and beta are between -4 and 4 */ + u32 alpha; /* alpha and beta are between 0 and 32 */ u32 beta; /* and are used for shift relative to 1 */ bool ecn; /* true if ecn is enabled */ bool bytemode; /* to scale drop early prob based on pkt size */ @@ -326,10 +331,16 @@ static void calculate_probability(struct Qdisc *sch) if (qdelay == 0 && qlen != 0) update_prob = false; - /* Add ranges for alpha and beta, more aggressive for high dropping - * mode and gentle steps for light dropping mode - * In light dropping mode, take gentle steps; in medium dropping mode, - * take medium steps; in high dropping mode, take big steps. + /* In the algorithm, alpha and beta are between 0 and 2 with typical + * value for alpha as 0.125. In this implementation, we use values 0-32 + * passed from user space to represent this. Also, alpha and beta have + * unit of HZ and need to be scaled before they can used to update + * probability. alpha/beta are updated locally below by 1) scaling them + * appropriately 2) scaling down by 16 to come to 0-2 range. + * Please see paper for details. + * + * We scale alpha and beta differently depending on whether we are in + * light, medium or high dropping mode. */ if (q->vars.prob < MAX_PROB / 100) { alpha = |