netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute: update dsfield file values

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Message-ID: <20140915135248.57954fff@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:52:48 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute: update dsfield file values

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 04:48:19 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:06 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> > Is it a bug, that we put DSCP's Expedited Forwarding (EF) into the
> > best-effort priority band(1) in pfifo_fast???
> > 
> 
> With 3 bands pfifo_fast, its hard to please everyone.
> 
> Using 5 or 6 bands would be more generic ;)

We can easily fix it for EF (which should have gone into band 0).

But we should likely just ignore it for AFxx.

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
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