netdev - Re: [RFC] SFQ planned changes

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Date:	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:36 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
Cc:	Michal Kubeček <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@...nsourcedevel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SFQ planned changes

Le mardi 03 janvier 2012 à 13:07 +0100, Dave Taht a écrit :

> From a 'doing science' perspective, I'd like it if it remained possible
> to continue using and benchmarking SFQ as it was, and create
> this set of ideas as a new qdisc ('efq'?)
> 
> As these changes seem to require changes to userspace tc, anyway,
> and (selfishly) my patching burden is great enough...
> 
> Perhaps some additional benefit could be had by losing
> full backward API compatability with sfq, as well?

No, it's completely compatable with prior version.

An old tc command, or lack of new arguments will setup the SFQ qdisc
exactly as before.

I coded the thing and am doing stress tests before submission.



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