Re: creating netdev queues on the fly?

[Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 15:35 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > So to get to my question: What if we could create netdev queues on the
> > fly?

> In term of qdisc management I believe its a bit complex if we start to
> dynamically add netdev queues :)

Yeah I was thinking that would be the problematic part.

> My first idea would be to extend Qdisc management so that a device can
> callback qdisc when a frame is finaly delivered / consumed / discarded.
> 
> We currently only have qdisc->enqueue() and qdisc->dequeue(), we could
> add qdisc->deliver_callback(skb)
> 
> You keep devices as they are, with a netdevqueue per hardware queue.
> 
> Then, using a Qdisc like existing ones, but with a limit of
> outstanding(given to device but not yet consumed) packets per class.
> 
> external tc classifier would deliver a hash/index depending on remote
> station.

So basically you'd have a class for each station? Or a class for each
station/AC? That's a lot of classes rather than queues, are they
pre-allocated, or does it not matter? Overall that sounds like a good
approach.

> As a bonus you can get all the existing rate estimators / QOS /
> shapers ...

Yeah ... I guess I need to start learning tc :)

johannes

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