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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
	"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netem: fix classful handling
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:10:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325182236.2607.50.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111229174323.GC2948@hell>

Le jeudi 29 décembre 2011 à 18:43 +0100, Hagen Paul Pfeifer a écrit :
> * Eric Dumazet | 2011-12-29 18:15:50 [+0100]:
> 
> >> In other words netem jitter and a qdisc !tfifo will not work. Correct? The
> >> rate extension also peak the last packet to get the reference time (assuming a
> >> strict ordering):
> >> 
> >
> >Yep, current situation is borked. It assumes we _use_ tfifo, for delay
> >jitters but also for rate extension.
> 
> Mhh, should we signal this to the user via 'tc -s qdisc show'? Or should we
> assume that a user who set netem rate|jitter AND a qdisc !tfifo knows what he
> does - because we assume he is a experienced user? At least somewhere in the
> manpage a comment should point to this characteristic.

I dont quite understand the question. The patch I posted is supposed to
fix the problem. What do you want to tell to the user ?

netem module is probably only used by experimented users, on very recent
kernels anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-29 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-18  5:12 netem and hierarchical ingress traffic shaping John A. Sullivan III
2011-12-18 19:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-19 16:53   ` John A. Sullivan III
2011-12-23 17:33   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-23 17:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-23 17:54       ` Dave Taht
2011-12-23 18:28         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-23 18:54           ` Dave Taht
2011-12-23 19:07           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-23 19:21             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-29  4:26               ` [PATCH net-next] netem: fix classful handling Eric Dumazet
2011-12-29  6:17                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-29  9:12                   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-29 16:52                     ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-12-29 17:15                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-29 17:43                         ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-12-29 18:10                           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-12-29 18:25                             ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-12-29 18:31                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-29 18:36                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-30 22:12                     ` David Miller
2011-12-23 19:36             ` netem and hierarchical ingress traffic shaping David Miller

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