Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.h
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c

Two minor conflicts in bonding, both of which were overlapping
changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_pie.c b/net/sched/sch_pie.c
index a255d0200a59..fefeeb73f15f 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_pie.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_pie.c
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
  *
  * ECN support is added by Naeem Khademi <naeemk@ifi.uio.no>
  * University of Oslo, Norway.
+ *
+ * References:
+ * IETF draft submission: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pan-aqm-pie-00
+ * IEEE  Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing 2013 :
+ * "PIE: A * Lightweight Control Scheme to Address the Bufferbloat Problem"
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@ struct pie_params {
         psched_time_t target;   /* user specified target delay in pschedtime */
         u32 tupdate;            /* timer frequency (in jiffies) */
         u32 limit;              /* number of packets that can be enqueued */
-        u32 alpha;              /* alpha and beta are between -4 and 4 */
+        u32 alpha;              /* alpha and beta are between 0 and 32 */
         u32 beta;               /* and are used for shift relative to 1 */
         bool ecn;               /* true if ecn is enabled */
         bool bytemode;          /* to scale drop early prob based on pkt size */
@@ -326,10 +331,16 @@ static void calculate_probability(struct Qdisc *sch)
         if (qdelay == 0 && qlen != 0)
                 update_prob = false;
 
-        /* Add ranges for alpha and beta, more aggressive for high dropping
-         * mode and gentle steps for light dropping mode
-         * In light dropping mode, take gentle steps; in medium dropping mode,
-         * take medium steps; in high dropping mode, take big steps.
+        /* In the algorithm, alpha and beta are between 0 and 2 with typical
+         * value for alpha as 0.125. In this implementation, we use values 0-32
+         * passed from user space to represent this. Also, alpha and beta have
+         * unit of HZ and need to be scaled before they can used to update
+         * probability. alpha/beta are updated locally below by 1) scaling them
+         * appropriately 2) scaling down by 16 to come to 0-2 range.
+         * Please see paper for details.
+         *
+         * We scale alpha and beta differently depending on whether we are in
+         * light, medium or high dropping mode.
          */
         if (q->vars.prob < MAX_PROB / 100) {
                 alpha =