From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qdisc: allow setting default queuing discipline Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:00:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1377662448.8828.155.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <20130827161908.26062336@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:54249 "EHLO mail-pa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752784Ab3H1EAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:50 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id bg4so5688266pad.4 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:00:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130827161908.26062336@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > --- 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