From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sch_netem: Remove classful functionality Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20081102.003700.198708146.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20081031132010.GA18895@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber@trash.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: jarkao2@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38390 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752568AbYKBHhZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 02:37:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081031132010.GA18895@ff.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jarek Poplawski Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:20:10 +0000 > Patrick McHardy noticed that: "a lot of the functionality of netem > requires the inner tfifo anyways and rate-limiting is usually done > on top of netem. So I would suggest so either hard-wire the tfifo > qdisc or at least make the assumption that inner qdiscs are > work-conserving.", and later: "- a lot of other qdiscs still don't > work as inner qdiscs of netem [...]". > > So, according to his suggestion, this patch removes classful options > of netem. The main reason of this change is to remove ops->requeue() > method, which is currently used only by netem. > > Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski Jarek, I applied this patch and your second one to net-next-2.6 But I did this only because I trust that you will address Stephen's feedback wrt. making existing netem functionality available in some way. Otherwise I'll have to revert these changes. Thanks!