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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Ashmi Bhanushali <ashmib@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a networking question
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:23:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050419132359.47e89b60@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6596a01050418003335ab6cf6@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:33:57 -0700
Ashmi Bhanushali <ashmib@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all..
> 
> i m a new bee in lunix kernel. and i m trying to implement "FIFO+"
> queuing for packet forwarding in linux kernel by modifying the
> original code for packet forwarding(FIFO).

The more useful way to do this is to do it at the queue discipline
layer outside of IP.  Start out with sch_fifo.c and modify it for your
new algorithm.

> i m going to use fedora core 2 and the kernel version is 2.6.11-7. i
> nned some help to locate the original code of queuing (FIFO). I looked
> at some files like ip_input.c, ip_output.c and ip_forward.c in the
> net/ipv4 directory of the kernel source code. but i m not sure if
> these are the correct files to look for the original FIFO packet
> queuing implemented in linux kernel.
> 
> could someone please help me in locating the files which has the FIFO
> queuing code.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> -ashmi

Networking stuff is discussed more on the netdev@oss.sgi.com list
and routing on lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18  7:33 a networking question Ashmi Bhanushali
2005-04-19  3:23 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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