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From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] r2q error with HTB
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 05:51:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106032198503647@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-106029492417993@msgid-missing>

On Friday 08 August 2003 00:20, Patrick Turley wrote:
> (This is a re-statement of a question I asked earlier)
>
> I have a number of HTB classes feeding into a root HTB qdisc. Whenever I
> set the rate on any of the subordinate classes to 78 kpbs or less, I get
> the following message:
>
>
> HTB : quantum of class <class ID> is small. Consider r2q change.
>
>
> I've done some reading about the meaning of r2q, and I understand it
> now:
>
>     quantum = rate/r2q
>
> where:
>
>     rate is expressed in kilobits per second
>     quantum is expressed in bytes
>     r2q has the appropriate units and is 10 by default
>
> Based on what I've read, it's not at all clear why HTB would complain
> about a rate of 78Kbit. That corresponds to a quantum of 7800 bytes,
> which is much larger than the maximum Ethernet packet size (1500).
>
> Anyone have a clue?
Yes.  78kbit = 9.75kbyte.  So quantum = 9.75kilobyte/10 = 975byte.

Stef

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-07 22:20 [LARTC] r2q error with HTB Patrick Turley
2003-08-08  5:51 ` Stef Coene [this message]
2003-08-08 17:06 ` Patrick Turley

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