Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:53768 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbZLDPY2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:24:28 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so2029364bwz.21 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:24:33 -0800 (PST) To: David Acker Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, patrik.flykt@nokia.com Subject: Re: WMM classification guideline for applications? References: <87d42u6dnd.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> <4B19276F.5080604@roinet.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:24:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4B19276F.5080604@roinet.com> (David Acker's message of "Fri\, 04 Dec 2009 10\:14\:55 -0500") Message-ID: <878wdi69u9.fsf@purkki.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Acker writes: > Kalle Valo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> me and Patrik have been pondering what's the proper way for user space >> applications to do packet classification to get the benefits from WMM. >> VoIP application is a good example here. >> >> For the time being we have identified three different methods: >> >> 1. SO_PRIORITY with values 0-7 (we used this in nokia n810) >> 2. SO_PRIORITY with values 256-263 (used by mac80211) >> 3. IPv4 DSCP field with values 0-7 (used by mac80211) [...] > What do think of also supporting a method 4, VLAN priority field (0-7)? Sorry, I haven't heard about this. I don't even know how applications should set this. Can you show an example, please? -- Kalle Valo