Subject: Re: IMQ bug: kernel reboot immediately

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:49:14 +0200

Salatiel Filho wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:41, Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Salatiel Filho wrote:
>>> Using this actions would make  sfq hashing by dest ip or source ip
>>> work just like it works in imq ?
 >>>
>> Not with the SFQ default hash since it classifies based on the
>> addresses in the IP header. But you could use the flow classifier,
>> which can use the addresses from the conntrack entry. This would
>> behave similar to IMQ+SFQ.
 >>
> Ok , i was tying to keepthe discussion to the mainline kernel :)

The flow classifier is in the mainline kernel.

> By sfq i mean esfq [though i read somewhere sfq will implement a way
> to hash by src / dest ip] , or wrr :)
> Actually i was never able to find out why wrr is not in mainline
> kernel. In my opinion it is the best round robin qdisc i have ever
> used.

There is DRR since a couple of versions. Combined with the
flow classifier, it should provide the same functionality
as ESFQ.