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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:49:42 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>
To:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.com>,
	Oren Duer <oren@...lanox.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 4/7] net/mlx4_en: Set max rate-limit for a TC

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com> wrote:
> Values in Mbps units.

Hopefully not nitpicking too much, but Mbps still seems to coarse to me.
Eg in wireless world I can imagine wanting to limit a tos to a small # of kbps.

If this is done through netlink, the ABI can use a small unit and then tc
can accept abbreviations for kbps / Mbps / Gbps?

 - R.
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