Re: General question about queuing on hardware devices

[Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>]

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
>
> > But I think under continuous traffic from the ports it is not possible
> > to queue local traffic infront of the port traffic.
>
> > From my view it is all a question of what kind of queue management you
> have in your transmit path and how this prioritises the different packet
> sources.
That's my problem.

In order to be fast enough I can't have any queue management
and the switching traffic is not passed through the kernel at all.
The port interfaces appear as a single device to the kernel.

But I still need to give local traffic priority.

Hmm, tricky...

> Regards
> Henrik
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Regards

Pantelis

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