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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:43:47 -0400
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jamal wrote:
> Heres the way i see it from a user perspective:
> If a NIC has 3 hardware queues; if that NIC supports strict priority
> (i.e the prio qdisc) which we already support, there should be no need
> for the user to really explicitly enable that support. 
> It should be transparent to them - because by configuring a multi queue
> prio qdisc (3 bands/queues default), they are already doing multiqueues.

Agreed.

	Jeff