netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] Add max rate TXQ attribute

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Message-Id: <20150316.155020.1838817631290149166.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:50:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerlitz.or@...il.com
Cc:	tom@...bertland.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	amirv@...lanox.com, idos@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] Add max rate TXQ attribute

From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:10:25 +0200

> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com> wrote:
>>> Add the ability to set a max-rate limitation for TX queues.
>>> The attribute name is maxrate and the units are Mbs, to make
>>> it similar to the existing max-rate limitation knobs (ETS and
>>> SRIOV ndo calls).
> 
>> Guaranteed rate is often defined in conjunction with maximum rate. It
>> might be nice to add a parameter for that to the ndo function in
>> anticipation of someone supporting that also.
> 
> I see -- so do we really want both from day one...? if this is the
> case, I can add that to the ndo with the value of 0 means no limit for
> maxrate and no guarantee for minrate

We can do this later.
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