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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:19:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com Cc: jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com Subject: Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 2/3][UPDATED] pkt_sched: Add multiqueue scheduler support From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:08:31 -0700 > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> > > This patch is intended to add a qdisc to support the new tx multiqueue > architecture by providing a band for each hardware queue. By doing > this it is possible to support a different qdisc per physical hardware > queue. > > This qdisc uses the skb->queue_mapping to select which band to place > the traffic onto. It then uses a round robin w/ a check to see if the > subqueue is stopped to determine which band to dequeue the packet from. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> I'm more and more agreeing with Jarek that the root-only restriction is rediculious. What if I want to do PRIO multiqueue for certain classes of traffic? If I want to shoot myself in the foot trying to use a setup like that, this thing damn well better let me. You don't unilaterally know better than the user. -- 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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