Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: fix select_queue management (v2)

[David M. <da...@da...>]

From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <pet...@in...>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:48:18 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> That's not how DCB works.  We use sch_multiq to identify the traffic we 
> want to put into the 8 bands.  So in other words, the user will add tc 
> filters to move the traffic around.  We override select queue to filter 
> the rest of the traffic into a single queue, so we don't randomly put 
> traffic into the other hardware priority queues.

It's escaping me why the multiq rules can't handle this?

In the end, it's a decision of where the logic lives.  Currently
the default handling logic is in the ->select_queue() override,
and I'm still not at all convinced it has to be there.