Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: util: constrain percentage in 0-100 interval

2019-07-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:44:07 +0200 Andrea Claudi wrote: > parse_percent() currently allows to specify negative percentages > or value above 100%. However this does not seems to make sense, > as the function is used for probabilities or bandiwidth rates. > > Moreover, using negative values leads

[PATCH iproute2] tc: util: constrain percentage in 0-100 interval

2019-07-13 Thread Andrea Claudi
parse_percent() currently allows to specify negative percentages or value above 100%. However this does not seems to make sense, as the function is used for probabilities or bandiwidth rates. Moreover, using negative values leads to erroneous results (using Bernoulli loss model as example): $ ip