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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v3] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:43:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110223074305.755c5713@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298474091.3301.364.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:14:51 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) SFB default child qdisc is pfifo_fast. It can be changed by another
> qdisc but a child qdisc MUST not drop a packet previously queued. This
> is because SFB needs to handle a dequeued packet in order to maintain
> its virtual queue states. pfifo_head_drop or CHOKe should not be used.

Why not add a flag field to Qdisc_ops and to mark qdisc's that
are (or not) work conserving?

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-23 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110221160306.GA9650@tuxdriver.com>
     [not found] ` <1298308283.2849.5.camel@edumazet-laptop>
     [not found]   ` <1298390536.2861.9.camel@edumazet-laptop>
2011-02-23 15:14     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v3] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 15:43       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-02-23 16:13         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 16:20           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-23 16:24       ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-23 16:48         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 16:58           ` Patrick McHardy
2011-02-23 17:16             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 17:05         ` [PATCH] net_sched: long word align struct qdisc_skb_cb data Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 17:30           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-23 22:17             ` David Miller
2011-02-23 20:56       ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v4] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 21:11         ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-23 21:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-23 21:30             ` David Miller
2011-02-23 22:06         ` David Miller
2011-02-24  5:40           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-24  6:51             ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-02-24  7:14               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-24  7:18                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 17:44               ` [PATCH iproute2] tc : " Eric Dumazet
2011-03-24 21:59                 ` Stephen Hemminger

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