codel & fq_codel packet schedulers are now able to have a threshold
for CE marking packets, regardless of the drop/nodrop decision taken by
CoDel.
This is particularly useful for dctcp and variants, that do not use
traditional ECN.
Note that fq_codel users would have to specify noecn if ce_threshold is
used, otherwise results would be not very interesting, as ecn is default
on for fq_codel.
$ tc -s qdisc show dev eth1
qdisc codel 8002: root refcnt 45 limit 1000p target 5.0ms ce_threshold
1.0ms interval 100.0ms
Sent 4908469888317 bytes 3351813967 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0
requeues 21624365)
rate 37671Mbit 3231836pps backlog 4904740b 250p requeues 21624365
count 0 lastcount 0 ldelay 1.1ms drop_next 0us
maxpacket 68130 ecn_mark 0 drop_overlimit 0 ce_mark 410861803
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Kernel code and interface.
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* Compile time switches
There is only one, but very important, compile time switch.
It is not settable by "make config", but should be selected
manually and after a bit of thinking in <include/net/pkt_sched.h>
PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE can take three values:
PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY
PSCHED_JIFFIES
PSCHED_CPU
PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY
Default setting is the most conservative PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY.
It is very slow both because of weird slowness of do_gettimeofday()
and because it forces code to use unnatural "timeval" format,
where microseconds and seconds fields are separate.
Besides that, it will misbehave, when delays exceed 2 seconds
(f.e. very slow links or classes bounded to small slice of bandwidth)
To resume: as only you will get it working, select correct clock
source and forget about PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY forever.
PSCHED_JIFFIES
Clock is derived from jiffies. On architectures with HZ=100
granularity of this clock is not enough to make reasonable
bindings to real time. However, taking into account Linux
architecture problems, which force us to use artificial
integrated clock in any case, this switch is not so bad
for schduling even on high speed networks, though policing
is not reliable.
PSCHED_CPU
It is available only for alpha and pentiums with correct
CPU timestamp. It is the fastest way, use it when it is available,
but remember: not all pentiums have this facility, and
a lot of them have clock, broken by APM etc. etc.
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