Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751234AbVKATyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:54:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751242AbVKATyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:54:47 -0500 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.194]:39903 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751230AbVKATyq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:54:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hrF1l1ww9XGXtmBiDlPhob01huW1Fm/Ed7x6Ve1dKIdAUGiew5srxI2xf/U340yH22U/ICu0bb9tebwovnJigYwNwcuOq887emVi86Tn1j7HUjrGUQBIcBr9PDnDm8n18DV/+5nqENJ2nNalgKeOXGJ5JrRPIvATgOZE4sp8r1s= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:54:45 +1300 From: Ian McDonald To: Thomas Graf Subject: Re: [PKT_SCHED]: Rework QoS and/or fair queueing configuration Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , bunk@stusta.de, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051101141302.GM23537@postel.suug.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051031102621.GF8009@stusta.de> <20051031132729.GK23537@postel.suug.ch> <20051101141302.GM23537@postel.suug.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 31 On 02/11/05, Thomas Graf wrote: > > Make "QoS and/or fair queueing" have its own menu, it's too big to be > inlined into "Network options". Remove the obsolete NET_QOS option. > Automatically select NET_CLS if needed. Do the same for NET_ESTIMATOR > but allow it to be selected manually for statistical purposes. Add > comments to separate queueing from classification. Fix dependencies > and ordering of classifiers. Improve descriptions/help texts and > remove outdated pieces. > Thomas I think the timing ones can be improved slightly out of the discussion at here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112912015311659&w=2 I keep meaning to submit a patch but low on my todo list. Feel free to do so if you wish or else I will get around to it one day. I know Arnaldo has also mentioned ktimers for the future (which I haven't yet read) which may help in this area as well. Ian -- Ian McDonald http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 WAND Network Research Group University of Waikato New Zealand - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/