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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: RFC: NAPI packet weighting patch
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:56:26 -0400
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On Fri, 2005-27-05 at 14:01 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> 
> Why not just allow adjusting dev->weight via sysfs?

I think that should be good enough - and i thought your patch already
did this. 
Adding a shift to the weight in a _weighted_ RR algorithm does sound
odd.

cheers,
jamal