netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/14]: Make packet scheduler multiqueue aware.

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Message-ID: <487C068D.3060002@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:08:13 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14]: Make packet scheduler multiqueue aware.

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:25:32 +0200
>
>   
>> Unfortunately that seems to imply that anything but the really
>> simple qdiscs can't be used transparently in combination with
>> multiqueue without breaking configurations.
>>     
>
> I think we can fix this after the merge window :)
>   
Yes, that shouldn't be a problem.
>
> One idea is to allow all of the queues to point at a
> single qdisc.  We'd just need to work out how to do the
> locking.
>
> For example, the Qdisc has a lock member, and a pointer.
> For simple qdiscs the pointer points at the netdev_queue
> lock.  But when sharing, we use the in-Qdisc static lock
That sounds nice and easy.

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