Re: [LARTC] filters not doing anything?

[Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 19:25, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 04:41:31PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote:
> > It depends on what you want to achieve.  You create a very complicated
> > setup with 3 qdiscs.  If you only want speed up ACK, and other traffic,
> > you can do this with 1 htb qdisc only.  More qdiscs, means more queues so
> > higher latency, higher CPU usage.
> > It also depends on how mach traffic you put in the bands.  If you only
> > want to speed up ACK, you can also use a htb class with a higher
> > priority.
>
> So a class with a higher priority that isn't empty will always be
> scheduled in front of one with a lower prio? That'd do the trick yes,
> good.
Yes.  But if you send too much data in the higher priority class (so you 
overlimit it), latency goes up.

> > So it just depends on what you want to do.  Maybe there is a cleaner
> > solution.
>
> Perhaps, but at the moment I'd be happy with just having filters work
> properly. I'll try a clean, unpatched, straight-from-linus (or
> marcelo) kernel later this week and see if it works on that.

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