Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:29:22 -0400

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:49:47 +1000
Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:26:39PM -0400, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > Tfifo is there only to add the jitter based reordering. Netem has other
> > better kinds of reordering as well.
> > 
> > Netem has to be able to put TBF in as a child qdisc. This is how loss
> > plus rate control is done.
> 
> What about making TBF a child of tfifo instead? Alternatively
> we could merge tfifo into netem.
> 

But then you couldn't replace tfifo with pfifo or tbf??