Re: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Jackson
David Miller wrote: From: Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:36:03 -0400 I propose that this is an architecture/framework/API issue that the Linux core networking code should be dealing with. Proposals are worthless if nobody wants to do the work to actually implemen

Re: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues

2006-07-02 Thread David Miller
From: Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:36:03 -0400 > I propose that this is an architecture/framework/API issue that the > Linux core networking code should be dealing with. Proposals are worthless if nobody wants to do the work to actually implement the proposal. Yo

Re: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues

2006-07-02 Thread Jeremy Jackson
I'd like to raise the question again. How can the network stack's flow control function with hardware that has multiple physical queues? How can these queues be exposed to tc? After scanning the netdev mailing list activity for the last 6 months, I can see no furthur discussion since my orig

RE: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues

2005-12-14 Thread Simon Barber
: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues Hi Jeremy, I implemented this functionality in Devicescape's 802.11 stack. The approach I took was for the driver to install a device specific qdisc as the root qdisc on the device. This root qdisc's purpose is to expose the hardw

RE: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues

2005-12-14 Thread Simon Barber
ould apply to Intel's e1000. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Jackson Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:31 PM To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: netif_stop_queue() and multiple hardware queues Hi, I posted this briefly on