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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:20:20 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@....jussieu.fr>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v3] net_sched: SFB flow scheduler

Am 23.02.2011 17:13, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> Le mercredi 23 février 2011 à 07:43 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:14:51 +0100
>> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.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?
>>
> 
> That was my initial idea, but have no idea how to implement it (outside
> of fast path, I mean...)

This also doesn't really have anything to do with work-conserving
qdiscs, SFB f.i. is work conserving, but still might drop other
packets. Actually I don't think there's any qdisc besides the
*fifos that can reasonably be used with SFB, so we might as well
only support a built-in qdisc.

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