netdev - Re: iproute2 / tbf with large burst seems broken again

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:18:00 +0300
From:	Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 / tbf with large burst seems broken again

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 15:13:44 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I'll need to find more time to rethink your problem (and this patch),
> because it really looks like your tbf usage is very uncommon. Anyway,
> I guess these changes aren't for 2.6.31, unless there're similar
> requests from other users soon.
>
>Thanks for testing,
>Jarek P.
I guess even no need for any kernel :-)

Just maybe good idea in next kernels to document this or handle overflow, that 
it will give warning in kernel. Otherwise user will have non-functional qdisc 
that will not pass traffic.
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