Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:01:26AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:
>Commit 0dfb33a0d7e2 ("sch_red: report backlog information") copied
>child's backlog into RED's backlog. Back then RED did not maintain
>its own backlog counts. This has changed after commit 2ccccf5fb43f
>("net_sched: update hierarchical backlog too") and commit d7f4f332f082
>("sch_red: update backlog as well"). Copying is no longer necessary.
>
>Tested:
>
>$ tc -s qdisc show dev veth0
>qdisc red 1: root refcnt 2 limit 400000b min 30000b max 30000b ecn
> Sent 20942 bytes 221 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
> backlog 1260b 14p requeues 14
> marked 0 early 0 pdrop 0 other 0
>qdisc tbf 2: parent 1: rate 1Kbit burst 15000b lat 3585.0s
> Sent 20942 bytes 221 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 138 requeues 0)
> backlog 1260b 14p requeues 14
>
>Recently RED offload was added. We need to make sure drivers don't
>depend on resetting the stats. This means backlog should be treated
>like any other statistic:
>
> total_stat = new_hw_stat - prev_hw_stat;
>
>Adjust mlxsw.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
