netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/4] net_sched: add MQSAFE flag to qdisc to identify mq like qdiscs

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Date:	Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:22:01 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hadi@...erus.ca,
	shemminger@...tta.com, tgraf@...radead.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/4] net_sched: add MQSAFE flag to qdisc
 to identify mq like qdiscs

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 07:34 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> Add a MQSAFE flag to the qdisc schedulers that can be safely
> managed by sch_mclass. Without this flag schedulers that are
> not aware of multiple tx queues can be grafted under the
> mclass qdisc. Allowing incorrect qdiscs to be grafted causes
> an invalid mapping from qdisc's to netdevice queues.
[...]

This should be defined before adding sch_mclass, or at the same time,
not after.

Ben.

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