netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4] rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow

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Message-ID: <20130423145222.5b696d0c@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:52:22 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] rps: selective flow shedding during softnet
 overflow

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:37:43 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:23 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > What about just having a smarter ingress qdisc?
> 
> What are your ideas ?
> 
> Setting ingress qdisc on linux is no fun, and not scalable.
> 
> Its ok for playing with netem and low bandwidth.
> 
> 

I just don't want to get tied down to one hard coded policy.
User seem have different ideas about what constitutes a flow and what policy for drop should be.
Existing ingress qdisc is inflexible and ifb is a pain to setup and adds
another queue transistion.
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