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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:01:15 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: hadi@...erus.ca CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support. jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 15:35 -0700, David Miller wrote: > >>The problem with this line of thinking is that it ignores the fact >>that it is bad to not queue to the device when there is space >>available, _even_ for lower priority packets. > > > So use a different scheduler. Dont use strict prio. Strict prio will > guarantee starvation of low prio packets as long as there are high prio > packets. Thats the intent. With a single queue state _any_ full HW queue will starve all other queues, independant of the software queueing discipline. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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