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-rw-r--r--net/sched/sch_pie.c21
-rw-r--r--net/sched/sch_tbf.c24
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_pie.c b/net/sched/sch_pie.c
index a255d0200a5..fefeeb73f15 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 =
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_tbf.c b/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
index 1cb413fead8..4f505a00689 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_tbf.c
@@ -334,18 +334,6 @@ static int tbf_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
qdisc_put_rtab(qdisc_get_rtab(&qopt->peakrate,
tb[TCA_TBF_PTAB]));
- if (q->qdisc != &noop_qdisc) {
- err = fifo_set_limit(q->qdisc, qopt->limit);
- if (err)
- goto done;
- } else if (qopt->limit > 0) {
- child = fifo_create_dflt(sch, &bfifo_qdisc_ops, qopt->limit);
- if (IS_ERR(child)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(child);
- goto done;
- }
- }
-
buffer = min_t(u64, PSCHED_TICKS2NS(qopt->buffer), ~0U);
mtu = min_t(u64, PSCHED_TICKS2NS(qopt->mtu), ~0U);
@@ -390,6 +378,18 @@ static int tbf_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
goto done;
}
+ if (q->qdisc != &noop_qdisc) {
+ err = fifo_set_limit(q->qdisc, qopt->limit);
+ if (err)
+ goto done;
+ } else if (qopt->limit > 0) {
+ child = fifo_create_dflt(sch, &bfifo_qdisc_ops, qopt->limit);
+ if (IS_ERR(child)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(child);
+ goto done;
+ }
+ }
+
sch_tree_lock(sch);
if (child) {
qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen(q->qdisc, q->qdisc->q.qlen);