From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: ESFQ (or SFQ updates) mainline status? Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:50:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20080119205013.61294ad3@deepthought> References: <1199474475.3820.65.camel@sally> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54337 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288AbYATExd (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:53:33 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JGSBQ-0005m0-GS for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:53:24 +0000 Received: from 069-064-229-129.pdx.net ([69.64.229.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:53:24 +0000 Received: from shemminger by 069-064-229-129.pdx.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:53:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1199474475.3820.65.camel@sally> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:21:15 -0800 Jeff Gustafson wrote: > Hi all, > I have a question about the status of the spiffy updates to SFQ. I > *really* like the ESFQ idea. I appears to be exactly what I'm looking > for. From what I can tell from this mailing list, SFQ is getting some > or all of the ESFQ features. Although the ESFQ web site gives detailed > information about the status for inclusion in mainline, I am having > trouble finding out exactly what (if any) parts of ESFQ got into SFQ in > mainline. > Did any of the ESFQ-like enhancements for SFQ reach .23 or do I still > need to patch? I am running a stripped-down Fedora 8 box and it would > be very convenient if the patches were already in .23 or added by the > Fedora team. > I tried to run the ESFQ command against SFQ, but the command was > rejected: > > /sbin/tc qdisc add dev eth1 parent 1:12 handle 12: sfq perturb 10 hash > ctnatchg > > It appears the even if the kernel does have the patches, the shipped > version tc does not. > > ..Jeff The mainline kernel doesn't have ESFQ, so the distribute version of iproute2 does not. If your distro chooses to add ESFQ to their kernel, then they need to extend tc as well. -- Stephen Hemminger