On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ke...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote: > > >> On 30 Jul 2018, at 00:42, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:05 AM Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant >> <ke...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>> To whom it may concern (Dave) ;-) >>> >>> This is a general plea that when patches are submitted to upstream please >>> can we also commit them to our current development repositories. >> >> Mea culpa. I was hiding under my desk expecting the 10GigE+ world to >> unite and march upon me, torches ablaze and, while gearing up for >> battle there, collecting data on how bql and split-gso interacted at >> various speeds, I didn't expect davem to just take the darn patch. > > They’re gathering firewood….and petrol tankers :-) > Actually I too was pretty surprised to see it committed. > > >> I have this whole lovely, giant, rant ,and plots that I'm not gonna be >> motivated to finish now. >> >> This does raise a long term point however in that as we go mainline >> more tweaks and patches *will* arrive >> via normal linux kernel processes from others. Do you want maintainership >> there? > > Personally, Noooo! :-) This sounds like backports territory. And I’m back > to that idea of dropping the kmod package and introducing cake via a kernel > patch for openwrt. *shudder* > > >> >>> 4.19 isn’t even released yet, so most people, including Openwrt, get cake >>> via our 'out of tree’ repositories. This is also a good idea from a point >>> of view of testing. I appreciate the latest changes are of ‘one line’ type >>> variety and so mostly harmless but ideally it should at least be in our own >>> out of tree repo’s first/at the same time. >>> >>> I had to submit the latest ‘split-gso by default’ patch, accepted to >>> upstream, manually to our own cake repo for Toke to commit. I note with >>> some distress that there’s an ‘iproute2’ upstream patch pending to enable >>> the userspace side of the same thing that currently is NOT in the ‘tc-adv’ >>> repo. >>> >>> Dare I also suggest that a man page update would be appreciated by >>> iproute2-next too. >> >> I started reviewing the man page's gobble of troff, started writing a >> tuning section (and decided that needed a web page), went looking for >> other missing keywords, and... we haven't heard from logan in a >> while... my back is covered with black jube jells and dust bunnies >> from hiding under my desk. >>
Will find time to update the man page :) >> and I dunno, has anyone read the man page lately? There's a HUGE >> opportunity to bikeshed there. > > Lord no, not the bikeshed! I was more thinking of including the two new > keywords that had been introduced….. not going wild :-) > > Kevin _______________________________________________ Cake mailing list Cake@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cake
