* [Cake] delayed bql and/or ethernet devices with alternate settings
@ 2015-04-12 22:13 Dave Taht
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From: Dave Taht @ 2015-04-12 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
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We actually need not do the bandwidth shaping in the qdisc.
IF an ethernet device existed that let you program in
its rate to not be line rate, that would be a nice feature,
then all the existing mechanisms (like BQL) would "just work"
and we would need no software rate shaping in that case.
So, despite transmitting a packet at 1gbit, returning an completion
interrupt as if it was transmitting at a a user specified 20 (or
X)mbit, would work with all the higher mechanisms in the kernel.
(I keep hoping, undocumented, somewhere in every ethernet
device, is a configuration option like this)
Receive is harder, you still have to drain the rx ring at
line rate.
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