Re: ethernet QoS support?

[Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>]

On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:02 AM, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:

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> I guess, Kumar is asking for support for several Tx queues with 
> different
> priorities. One need to start/stop these queues separately. This is 
> dictated
> by presense of different priorities on physical layer.
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> Kumar, is it 802.11? WME or TGE?

I'm not sure what WME or TGE stand for, we are looking at a gig-e 
controller.

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> Vladimir.
>
> On Thursday 08 July 2004 23:00, jamal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 15:01, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there was any support for handling ethernet 
>>>> devices
>>>> that support multiple RX/TX queues to provide QoS.  If so any 
>>>> pointers
>>>> would be great.
>>>
>>> IIRC skb->priority provides priority bands for TX.  Not sure about 
>>> RX...
>>> jamal?
>>
>> The question was very ambigous.
>> What is it that Kumar is looking for? Is it 802.1p, IP level etc?
>>
>> cheers,
>> jamal
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