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

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Date:	Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:29:22 -0400
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:49:47 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> 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.
> 

But then you couldn't replace tfifo with pfifo or tbf??
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