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Re: ethernet QoS support?

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Subject: Re: ethernet QoS support?
From: Vladimir Kondratiev <vkondra@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:02:21 +0300
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I guess, Kumar is asking for support for several Tx queues with different 
priorities. One need to start/stop these queues separately. This is dictated 
by presense of different priorities on physical layer.

Kumar, is it 802.11? WME or TGE?

Vladimir.

On Thursday 08 July 2004 23:00, jamal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 15:01, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > Jeff,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there was any support for handling ethernet devices
> > > that support multiple RX/TX queues to provide QoS.  If so any pointers
> > > would be great.
> >
> > IIRC skb->priority provides priority bands for TX.  Not sure about RX...
> > jamal?
>
> The question was very ambigous.
> What is it that Kumar is looking for? Is it 802.1p, IP level etc?
>
> cheers,
> jamal
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