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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:56:49 +0200 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org, bcrl@...ck.org Cc: dave.taht@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4,ipv6: send arp/ndisc packets with TC_PRIO_CONTROL On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:34:12AM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > We already did this change for igmp/mld packets in commit > 9d4a0314642918cbda9ed4012df51e8df608fce6 ("ipv4, ipv6: send igmpv3/mld > packets with TC_PRIO_CONTROL"). > > arp and ndisc are as important as mld/igmp for a working network, so > make the appropriate change here, too. > > Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> I would like to downgrade this patch from tag net-next to RFC. After Dave Taht talked to me, I realized that this change could have drastic impact on how packets could starve in various qdiscs if a router is last hop for a ping scan. Please postpone this patch until I did more research. Comments are welcome, too. Thanks, Hannes -- 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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