Hi,
On 09/27/2017 02:14 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes
>> <vinicius.go...@intel.com> wrote:
>>> +static int cbs_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
>>> +{
>>> + struct cbs_sched_data *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
>>> + struct net_device *dev = qdisc_dev(sch);
>>> +
>>> + if (!opt)
>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> + /* FIXME: this means that we can only install this qdisc
>>> + * "under" mqprio. Do we need a more generic way to retrieve
>>> + * the queue, or do we pass the netdev_queue to the driver?
>>> + */
>>> + q->queue = TC_H_MIN(sch->parent) - 1 - netdev_get_num_tc(dev);
>>> +
>>> + return cbs_change(sch, opt);
>>> +}
>>
>> Yeah it is ugly to assume its parent is mqprio, at least you should
>> error out if it is not the case.
>
> Will add an error for this, for now.
>
>>
>> I am not sure how we can solve this elegantly, perhaps you should
>> extend mqprio rather than add a new one?
>
> Is the alternative hinted in the FIXME worse? Instead of passing the
> index of the hardware queue to the driver we pass the pointer to a
> netdev_queue to the driver and it "discovers" the HW queue from that.
What if we keep passing the index, but calculate it from the netdev_queue
pointer instead?
i.e.: q->queue = sch->dev_queue - netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, 0);
At least it wouldn't rely on the root qdisc being of any specific type.
Regards,
Jesus
