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Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:12:03 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] qdisc: sysctl to adjust bulk dequeue limit

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> <brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Allow userspace to adjust how many packet the qdisc is allowed to
> > bulk dequeue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
> >
> > ---
> > Question should we allow this to be adjusted?
> >
>
> A sysctl is ugly and seems not fit well with Qdisc which always uses netlink,
> so I think a netlink flag might be better if we can find a generic one.
>
You could also make this a device specific attribute easily enough.

> Also, you forgot to document it.
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