linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Traffic control cgroups subsystem

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Message-ID: <6599ad830809101709k5bf10e6y2399235c68e59548@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:09:49 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Thomas Graf" <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	"Ranjit Manomohan" <ranjitm@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kaber@...sh.net, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Traffic control cgroups subsystem

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
>> Isn't a very large fraction of outgoing network traffic driven from
>> net_tx_action(), which doesn't execute in the context of the sending
>> process? Or am I missing something?
>
> net_tx_action() dequeues from the qdisc. The classification is done
> before the packets is enqueued onto the qdisc.

Ah, good point.

Thanks,

Paul
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