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Commit af356afa authored by Patrick McHardy's avatar Patrick McHardy Committed by David S. Miller
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net_sched: reintroduce dev->qdisc for use by sch_api



Currently the multiqueue integration with the qdisc API suffers from
a few problems:

- with multiple queues, all root qdiscs use the same handle. This means
  they can't be exposed to userspace in a backwards compatible fashion.

- all API operations always refer to queue number 0. Newly created
  qdiscs are automatically shared between all queues, its not possible
  to address individual queues or restore multiqueue behaviour once a
  shared qdisc has been attached.

- Dumps only contain the root qdisc of queue 0, in case of non-shared
  qdiscs this means the statistics are incomplete.

This patch reintroduces dev->qdisc, which points to the (single) root qdisc
from userspace's point of view. Currently it either points to the first
(non-shared) default qdisc, or a qdisc shared between all queues. The
following patches will introduce a classful dummy qdisc, which will be used
as root qdisc and contain the per-queue qdiscs as children.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5b9a9ccf
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