Re: creating netdev queues on the fly?

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Le vendredi 11 novembre 2011 à 12:42 +0100, Dave Taht a écrit :

> More elegant to be sure. But for N you kind of need to do ewma between
> aggregated transmission groups.
> 

I speak at Class/Qdisc level. If each transmission group has its own
class [ I believe it should ], it should fit.


> I still don't 'get' how we can split out a stream based on a
> stationid, toss it in a queue to be further scheduled (my choice would
> be QFQ, btw), and then sanely de-schedule a burst of packets for that
> destination appropriate for that station's aggregation level and
> transmit rate using existing tc methods.
> 

Right now its not possible since we dont have a feedback once a packet
is dequeued from qdisc. But it should be doable.

> I liked the callback idea discussed earlier for implementing a
> 'grouper' of this sort.
> 
> That said I'm strongly encouraged by the dialog thus far on this thread.
> 

...

> and I assume that you are either making this syntax up or coding
> faster than emailing in some tree somewhere...
> 

That because I prefer discussing on this before starting coding once
general idea is accepted.

Note this delay idea is not new, it already was mentioned on netdev some
months ago.



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