From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:21:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] tail and head drop qdiscs Message-Id: <41F8EAD5.1080706@dsl.pipex.com> List-Id: References: <1106170939.10019.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1106170939.10019.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org vincent perrier wrote: >>vincent perrier wrote: >> >>>I think that there are no qdiscs that permit to drop the oldest >>>frame of a queue when this queue is full ... > > >>What sort of thing do you want this for? >>... >>Andy. >> > > > Very low rate (satellite links for example) and strict priority can > lead to messages waiting for a chance to be transmitted and getting > old in low prio queues as higher priority messages take all the > bandwidth. > Vincent. Ahh - if the messages established tcp then I don't think it will make any difference. If the messages are udp then I suppose it could help a bit - depends what you mean by messages. Andy. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/