<div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>Eric Dumazet just posted a pure fq scheduler (using the highly optimized red/black trees in the kernel) <br><br><a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137740009008261&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137740009008261&w=2</a><br>
<br></div><div>which "scales to millions of concurrent flows per qdisc".Jon Corbet wrote it up in (subscriber only link) in lwn <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/564978/">http://lwn.net/Articles/564978/</a><br></div>
<div>which also details the new tso sizing patch, which fixes the oft complained about overlarge tso problem and does much saner things with it....<br><br><a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/281264">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/281264</a><br>
</div><div><br></div>Almost simultaneously Stephen Hemminger wrote a sysctl option making it possible to easily switch the default qdisc from pfifo_fast to "something else"<br><div><br><a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137764555622344&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=137764555622344&w=2</a><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>And earlier in the week Jesper Bauer got the last of the atm/htb fixes in.<br></div><div><br></div><div>All of these patches are now in the net-next tree. There were a few touchups and tweaks here and there over the days following, that aren't in there yet...<br>
<br></div><div>Future looks so bright we gotta wear shades, or eyepatches, or something....<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Dave Täht<br><br>Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: <a href="http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html" target="_blank">http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html</a>
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