On 4/29/19 4:52 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
> This allows for a new schedule to be specified during runtime, without
> removing the current one.
> 
> For that, the semantics of the 'tc qdisc change' operation in the
> context of taprio is that if "change" is called and there is a running
> schedule, a new schedule is created and the base-time (let's call it
> X) of this new schedule is used so at instant X, it becomes the
> "current" schedule. So, in short, "change" doesn't change the current
> schedule, it creates a new one and sets it up to it becomes the
> current one at some point.
> 
> In IEEE 802.1Q terms, it means that we have support for the
> "Oper" (current and read-only) and "Admin" (future and mutable)
> schedules.
> 
...
> 
> It was necessary to fix a bug, so the clockid doesn't need to be
> specified when changing the schedule.

Does that bug fix need to be applied to master?

> 
> Most of the changes are related to make it easier to reuse the same
> function for printing the "admin" and "oper" schedules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.go...@intel.com>
> ---
>  tc/q_taprio.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 

applied to iproute2-next.

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