* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-07-23 06:39
> I'm trying to convert tc_index to a u16, which looks OK in all places
> but sched_gred. I can't make sense of this code:
> 
>         /* fix tc_index? --could be controvesial but needed for
>            requeueing */
>         skb->tc_index=(skb->tc_index&0xfffffff0) | t->def;
> 
> Why is a mask of 0xfffffff0 used? It shouldn't be larger than 0xffff
> anyway.

It doesn't really matter, my red patchset will change this to:

        #define MAX_DPs 16
        #define GRED_VQ_MASK (MAX_DPs - 1)

        skb->tc_index = (skb->tc_index & ~GRED_VQ_MASK) | dp;

We can cast GRED_VQ_MASK to u16 if needed.
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