netdev - Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl

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Message-ID: <20080824234947.GA19018@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:49:47 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jarkao2@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, denys@...p.net.lb
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:26:39PM -0400, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Tfifo is there only to add the jitter based reordering. Netem has other
> better kinds of reordering as well.
> 
> Netem has to be able to put TBF in as a child qdisc. This is how loss
> plus rate control is done.

What about making TBF a child of tfifo instead? Alternatively
we could merge tfifo into netem.

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