netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior

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Message-ID: <46321A33.8050103@pobox.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:43:47 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cramerj <cramerj@...el.com>,
	"Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	"Leech, Christopher" <christopher.leech@...el.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPROUTE: Modify tc for new PRIO multiqueue behavior

jamal wrote:
> Heres the way i see it from a user perspective:
> If a NIC has 3 hardware queues; if that NIC supports strict priority
> (i.e the prio qdisc) which we already support, there should be no need
> for the user to really explicitly enable that support. 
> It should be transparent to them - because by configuring a multi queue
> prio qdisc (3 bands/queues default), they are already doing multiqueues.

Agreed.

	Jeff


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