netdev - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:38:09 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	krkumar2@...ibm.com, jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Don't run __qdisc_run() on a stopped TX queue

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:22:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Of course, you can solve the issue by redefining problem. :-)
> 
> However, such a semantic is not what users of this feature
> are after.  I doubt there would be much uptake of it even
> if we did implement it.

I did say it wasn't a good answer :)

My main point is that whatever we do for the limiting qdiscs
should not penalise the non-limiting qdiscs because for the
moment people are trying to get more out of their NICs rather
than less :)

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