netdev - Re: Traffic shaping - class ID 16bit limit?

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Message-ID: <1314304013.2329.3.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:26:53 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Traffic shaping - class ID 16bit limit?

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 09:39 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Granted it was a poor choice in the initial design.
> It is wired into the API and changing it would be quite painful.
> 

You should be able to have infinite queues if you use the 
hierachies. i.e each hierachy should expose a new 16 bit
namespace. 

cheers,
jamal

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