Hi Jamal/Cong/David/all. Digging in the u32 code deeper now. I need to get rid of tp->q for shared blocks, but I found out about this:
struct Qdisc { ...... void *u32_node; ...... }; Yeah, ugly. u32 uses it to store some shared data, tp_c. It actually stores a linked list of all hashtables added to one qdiscs. So basically what you have is, you have 1 root ht per prio/pref. Then you can have multiple hts, linked from any other ht, does not matter in which prio/pref they are. Do I understand that correctly that prio/pref only has meaning if linking does not take place, because if there is linking, the prio/pref of inserted rule is simply ignored? That is the most confusing thing I saw in net/sched/ so far. Is this a bug? Sounds like one. Did someone introduce *u32_node (formerly static struct tc_u_common *u32_list;) just to allow this weirdness? Can I just remove this shared tp_c and make the linking to other hashtables only possible within the same prio/pref? That would make sense to me. Thanks. Jiri