netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] dql: add a burst attribute

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Message-ID: <20140930232955.406a92da@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:29:55 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>, toke@...e.dk,
	brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] dql: add a burst attribute

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:51:25 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Add a new dql attribute, to control how much packets we are allowed to
> burst from qdisc to device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---
> Jesper, please consider using this instead of 7 or 8 values you hard coded.

The hard coded budget was only a safe guard.  I didn't want to export
it (as we can never remove it then), I plan to remove it or replace it
with something else.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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