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From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: tbf/htb qdisc limitations
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:34:07 -0400
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 =E0 23:36 -0400, Bill Fink a =E9crit :
>=20
> > I was just trying to do an 8 Gbps rate limit on a 10-GigE path,
> > and couldn't get it to work with either htb or tbf.  Are you
> > saying this currently isn't possible?  Or are you saying to use
> > this hfsc mechanism, which there doesn't seem to be a man page
> > for?
>=20
> man pages ? Oh well...
>=20
> 8Gbps rate limit sounds very optimistic with a central lock and one
> queue...
>=20
> Maybe its possible to split this into 8 x 1Gbps, using 8 queues...
> or 16 x 500 Mbps

Not when I'm trying to rate limit a single flow.

				-Bill