netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] sch_sfq: allow big packets and be fair

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Message-Id: <20101231.124817.242139130.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:48:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] sch_sfq: allow big packets and be fair

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:53:33 +0100

> [PATCH v3 net-next-2.6] sch_sfq: allow big packets and be fair
> 
> SFQ is currently 'limited' to small packets, because it uses a 15bit
> allotment number per flow. Introduce a scale by 8, so that we can handle
> full size TSO/GRO packets.
> 
> Use appropriate handling to make sure allot is positive before a new
> packet is dequeued, so that fairness is respected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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