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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:47:45 -0800 From: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@...ubc.ca> To: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, "<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Brendan Cully <brendan@...ubc.ca> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] net/sched: sch_plug - Queue traffic until an explicit release command On 2012-01-30, at 6:54 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:56 -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > >> Please address the comment from Hagen on the printk (kill it). >> Other than that i think this simple enough and non-intrusive >> to other users that you can add an Acked-by from me. >> It will be nice to get it to be generic as per Hagen's and my >> earlier comments. > > I thought about sch_plug a second time and I like the idea of a user-space > based flow-controlled queue. But as I wrote in my first email: the current > implementation is a little bit XEN specific. Make it more general > (plug/unplug The use case I cited in the kconfig was xen specific. The plug and unplug functionality is already there and is generic. I can certainly rename the tcq #defs :) > , plug/packet-based-unplug) and it is a great contribution. > Could you elaborate a little on the packet-based-unplug ? I got your earlier comment on "indefinite unplug" until an explicit plug is received. Is that what you mean by packet-based-unplug ? Shriram > Hagen > -- 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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