kmod-sched-cake: bump to latest bake of cake for 17.01
authorKevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:45:10 +0000 (13:45 +0000)
committerJohn Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:35:41 +0000 (00:35 +0100)
commit4f1dca9ecac0fd58944e0b8add88026dea88a00b
tree240ac6d141d04e193383c8d2c730d3ec9f32e69a
parent959a49dc15a6a4d08924ed7bea02759c01bd5ad3
kmod-sched-cake: bump to latest bake of cake for 17.01

There has been recent significant activity with the cake qdisc of late
but in the cobalt branch.  Some of that effort is related to upstreaming
to kernel & iproute2 mainline but we're not quite there yet.  Relevant
feature changes:

ingress mode: Instead of only counting packets that make it past the
shaper, include packets we've decided to drop as well, since they did
arrive with us on the link and took link capacity.
This mode is more suitable for shaping the ingress of a link
(e.g. from ISP) rather than the more normal egress.

ptm mode: Minor optimisation in packet overhead calculation.

dual-src/dsthost/triple-isolate: Optimise only calculating src or dst
host hashes only if required.

ack-filter/ack-filter-aggressive: Filter excessive TCP ACKS.  Useful in
highly assymetric links (downstream v upstream capacity) where the
majority of upstream link capacity is occupied with ACKS for downstream
traffic.

A separate iproute2 patch to teach it about Cake's new features will
follow.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
package/kernel/kmod-sched-cake/Makefile