Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:47:13 -0700 From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dummynet WFQ Message-ID: <3CFCE101.3040108@isi.edu> References: <3CFB9BC4.9080506@isi.edu> <20020603122913.A78688@iguana.icir.org>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010605080902010807040704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Luigi Rizzo wrote: > the signal that tell the WFQ algorithm when you can transmit the > next packet comes from the pipe. The latter ticks either at a > predefined rate (as configured with the 'bw NNN bit/s' parameter), > or from the tx interrupt coming from a device (e.g. you can say > something like 'bw ed0' to get the transmit clock from device ed0). > > HOWEVER: i have implemented the necessary machinery in dummynet (it > is a function called if_tx_rdy()) and in the user interface, "ipfw", > but have not added the hooks to call if_tx_rdy() in each device > driver because these calls are somewhat expensive, and you probably do not want > them on a 100Mbit/s interface. > > See http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/165/2002/3/0/8222181/ > on how to use them (a search for "dummynet if_tx_rdy()" should return > some results). I'm trying to merge this into the sis driver, which seems to batch transmissions together. For clarification, do you expect one if_tx_rdy() call per packet or one per batch? Per packet may result in a burst of these calls, does dummynet handle this? 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