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authorLeslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>2020-03-05 00:26:01 +0530
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-03-04 13:25:55 -0800
commit105e808c1da2a2827a4a374ae6e3003249729eec (patch)
treee6045369559f0fb426929d5fee0e22303a7d95e7 /include/net/pie.h
parent220d4ac74ed691033b6fe2bd98dc07d6bdece046 (diff)
downloadlinux-105e808c1da2a2827a4a374ae6e3003249729eec.tar.gz
pie: remove pie_vars->accu_prob_overflows
The variable pie_vars->accu_prob is used as an accumulator for
probability values. Since probabilty values are scaled using the
MAX_PROB macro denoting (2^64 - 1), pie_vars->accu_prob is
likely to overflow as it is of type u64.

The variable pie_vars->accu_prob_overflows counts the number of
times the variable pie_vars->accu_prob overflows.

The MAX_PROB macro needs to be equal to at least (2^39 - 1) in
order to do precise calculations without any underflow. Thus
MAX_PROB can be reduced to (2^56 - 1) without affecting the
precision in calculations drastically. Doing so will eliminate
the need for the variable pie_vars->accu_prob_overflows as the
variable pie_vars->accu_prob will never overflow.

Removing the variable pie_vars->accu_prob_overflows also reduces
the size of the structure pie_vars to exactly 64 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mohit P. Tahiliani <tahiliani@nitk.edu.in>
Signed-off-by: Gautam Ramakrishnan <gautamramk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Leslie Monis <lesliemonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/pie.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/pie.h5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/pie.h b/include/net/pie.h
index 24f68c1e9919..1c645b76a2ed 100644
--- a/include/net/pie.h
+++ b/include/net/pie.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <net/inet_ecn.h>
 #include <net/pkt_sched.h>
 
-#define MAX_PROB	U64_MAX
+#define MAX_PROB	(U64_MAX >> BITS_PER_BYTE)
 #define DTIME_INVALID	U64_MAX
 #define QUEUE_THRESHOLD	16384
 #define DQCOUNT_INVALID	-1
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ struct pie_params {
  * @dq_count:			number of bytes dequeued in a measurement cycle
  * @avg_dq_rate:		calculated average dq rate
  * @backlog_old:		queue backlog during previous qdelay calculation
- * @accu_prob_overflows:	number of times accu_prob overflows
  */
 struct pie_vars {
 	psched_time_t qdelay;
@@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ struct pie_vars {
 	u64 dq_count;
 	u32 avg_dq_rate;
 	u32 backlog_old;
-	u8 accu_prob_overflows;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -107,7 +105,6 @@ static inline void pie_vars_init(struct pie_vars *vars)
 	vars->accu_prob = 0;
 	vars->dq_count = DQCOUNT_INVALID;
 	vars->avg_dq_rate = 0;
-	vars->accu_prob_overflows = 0;
 }
 
 static inline struct pie_skb_cb *get_pie_cb(const struct sk_buff *skb)