From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Network QoS support in applications Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:16:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100126.041610.226004766.davem@davemloft.net> References: <87k4v5nuej.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <4B5ED254.7010104@trash.net> <877hr5nkx0.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kaber-dcUjhNyLwpNeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: kalle.valo-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <877hr5nkx0.fsf-ySPBbPOLdCfMApvqMRVM/A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Kalle Valo Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:51:55 +0200 > Let's take a bittorrent client as an example. The traffic it generates > is not important and it doesn't matter if bittorrent packets have > lower priority compared to other streams. What SO_PRIORITY value > should all bittorrent clients to use to mark their packets as low > priority (for example background class from IEEE 802.1d Annex G). This is a local policy decision. There is no universal way of doing any of this, really. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html