From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead•org>, netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2] sch_red: TC_RED_HARDDROP
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:36:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111130143642.7130aa2b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322684749.2602.3.camel@edumazet-laptop>
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:25:49 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas
>
> In 2005, TC_RED_HARDDROP kernel support was added to RED and GRED
> (commit bdc450a0bb1 [PKT_SCHED]: (G)RED: Introduce hard dropping), but
> current iproute2 doesnt have user land support.
>
> Is there some patch waiting somewhere, or should we :
>
> - Remove kernel support, since nobody uses it.
>
> - Add iproute2 support.
(Almost) nobody uses RED because they can't figure it out.
According to Wikipedia, VJ says that:
"there are not one, but two bugs in classic RED."
But if flag is present, then Thomas should have sent a patch, might have
been lost, that was pre-patchwork days.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-30 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 20:25 [RFC iproute2] sch_red: TC_RED_HARDDROP Eric Dumazet
2011-11-30 22:36 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-12-01 21:06 ` [PATCH] sch_red: fix red_change Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 21:35 ` Dave Taht
2011-12-01 21:48 ` Jim Gettys
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 22:04 ` Jim Gettys
2011-12-05 11:42 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-12-07 22:57 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-12-02 0:25 ` David Miller
2011-11-30 23:29 ` [RFC iproute2] sch_red: TC_RED_HARDDROP Thomas Graf
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