On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 02:10:02PM -0800, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > Please argue out the situation with yourself and get back to me when
> > you've come to a conclusion.
>
> After an intense bout of self directed parliamentary wrangling
> (back-room deals, filibusters, ear marks, late night socratic
> dialectics) I've come to the following conclusion:
>
> HFSC drops packets not directed to a default queue. HTB does not.
> GIven this information the patch seems reasonable to me. I would
> update the documentation in the patch to indicate that not all QoS
> implementations actually drop traffic, but most have undesirable
> behavior.
I applied this incremental:
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index 8edc18e..cd50f55 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -2064,8 +2064,9 @@
actions when no specific queue has been set. Ordinarily <ref
column="queues"/> should include a configuration for queue 0. When no
configuration for queue 0 is present, a default configuration is used.
- (Before version 1.6, Open vSwitch would drop all packets destined for
- the default queue if no configuration was present.)
+ (Before version 1.6, Open vSwitch would leave queue 0 unconfigured in
+ this case. With some queuing disciplines, this dropped all packets
+ destined for the default queue.)
</p>
</column>
I pushed this to master and branch-1.[2345].
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