[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "cbq: incorrect processing of high limits" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cbq: incorrect processing of high limits

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ef46645e76c672ff6555e972aba51b8c039e591d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs at parallels.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 03:01:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] cbq: incorrect processing of high limits

commit f0f6ee1f70c4eaab9d52cf7d255df4bd89f8d1c2 upstream.

currently cbq works incorrectly for limits > 10% real link bandwidth,
and practically does not work for limits > 50% real link bandwidth.
Below are results of experiments taken on 1 Gbit link

 In shaper | Actual Result
-----------+---------------
  100M     | 108 Mbps
  200M     | 244 Mbps
  300M     | 412 Mbps
  500M     | 893 Mbps

This happen because of q->now changes incorrectly in cbq_dequeue():
when it is called before real end of packet transmitting,
L2T is greater than real time delay, q_now gets an extra boost
but never compensate it.

To fix this problem we prevent change of q->now until its synchronization
with real time.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs at openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet at ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/sch_cbq.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cbq.c b/net/sched/sch_cbq.c
index 564b9fc..611d5e9 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_cbq.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_cbq.c
@@ -963,8 +963,11 @@ cbq_dequeue(struct Qdisc *sch)
 		cbq_update(q);
 		if ((incr -= incr2) < 0)
 			incr = 0;
+		q->now += incr;
+	} else {
+		if (now > q->now)
+			q->now = now;
 	}
-	q->now += incr;
 	q->now_rt = now;

 	for (;;) {
--
1.8.1.2