From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Schoeman Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 07:18:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] ESFQ? Message-Id: <41DB94DF.2070407@expertron.co.za> List-Id: References: <41DAB1B4.6030902@expertron.co.za> In-Reply-To: <41DAB1B4.6030902@expertron.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Ouch... Is there any other way to do host-based fair sharing (well, other than actually classifying each host :-( )? Thanks, -justin Jonathan Day wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, ESFQ for Linux is > essentially dead. There's a patchset - QNet - which > does port ESFQ to the 2.6.8/2.6.9 kernels, but ESFQ is > not split out, so it looks like an all-or-nothing > deal. > > http://kem.p.lodz.pl/~peter/qnet/ > > I don't know if QNet is still being maintained - the > last update on the page refers to October 2004 - and > there's nothing to indicate how well the forward ports > actually work in practice. > > A search using Google shows only older ESFQ versions > (one for 2.6.0-test11, for example) but nothing newer. > > There was one posting about ESFQ to the kernel > developers mailing list, but I couldn't see any > follow-ups to it. Nor does it appear to be in Andrew > Morton's patchset (an excellent indicator of interest > level and the probability of ending up in the official > kernel). > > Unfortunately, this seems to be fairly common in Linux > QoS - too many one-man projects and too few resources > too keep them going. > > --- Justin Schoeman wrote: > > >>Hi again, >> >>I was just looking around for ESFQ sources, and I >>see that the main site >>is down, and only has kernel 2.6.4 patches. >> >>Is ESFQ maintained? If so, where can I find patches >>for 2.6.10? >> >>Thanks, >>-justin >>_______________________________________________ >>LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl >>http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: >>http://lartc.org/ >> > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/