Re: [PATCH net-next] qdisc: allow setting default queuing discipline

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 16:19 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> By default, the pfifo_fast queue discipline has been used by default
> for all devices. But we have better choices now.
> 
> This patch allow setting the default queueing discipline with sysctl.
> This allows easy use of better queueing disciplines on all devices
> without having to use tc qdisc scripts. It is intended to allow
> an easy path for distributions to make fq_codel or sfq the default
> qdisc.
> 
> This patch also makes pfifo_fast more of a first class qdisc, since
> it is now possible to manually override the default and explicitly
> use pfifo_fast. The behavior for systems who do not use the sysctl
> is unchanged, they still get pfifo_fast
> 
> Also removes leftover random # in sysctl net core.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> 
> ---

I find this quite incredible, because I was going to write such patch
tonight ;)

Now I can just relax, thanks so much Stephen !

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>