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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:25:23 +0800

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:06:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> More interesting to me is the case where the queue is not
>> filled up, or is very nearly so. :-)
> 
> Do you mean the hardware queue? In that case perhaps Krishna's
> proposal of bypassing the qdisc would be the best.

Wouldn't that bypass any rate limiting enforcement done by
the qdisc too?