From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian McDonald Subject: Re: [PKT_SCHED]: Rework QoS and/or fair queueing configuration Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:54:45 +1300 Message-ID: References: <20051031102621.GF8009@stusta.de> <20051031132729.GK23537@postel.suug.ch> <20051101141302.GM23537@postel.suug.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , bunk@stusta.de, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Thomas Graf In-Reply-To: <20051101141302.GM23537@postel.suug.ch> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 02/11/05, Thomas Graf wrote: > > Make "QoS and/or fair queueing" have its own menu, it's too big to be > inlined into "Network options". Remove the obsolete NET_QOS option. > Automatically select NET_CLS if needed. Do the same for NET_ESTIMATOR > but allow it to be selected manually for statistical purposes. Add > comments to separate queueing from classification. Fix dependencies > and ordering of classifiers. Improve descriptions/help texts and > remove outdated pieces. > Thomas I think the timing ones can be improved slightly out of the discussion at here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112912015311659&w=2 I keep meaning to submit a patch but low on my todo list. Feel free to do so if you wish or else I will get around to it one day. I know Arnaldo has also mentioned ktimers for the future (which I haven't yet read) which may help in this area as well. Ian -- Ian McDonald http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 WAND Network Research Group University of Waikato New Zealand