Re: [leo@xxxxxxxxx: [PATCH] ethernet-bridge: update skb->priority in case forwarded frame has VLAN-header]

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:36, Patrick McHardy wrote: 
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, jamal wrote:
> 
> > This is wrong. IEEE priorities are opposite of IETF priorities (as used by
> > skb->prio).
> > Unless you install a prio qdisc and rewrite the priomap, you are screwed.
> > So you should do opposite mapping, i.e something along the lines of
> > VLAN_TCI priority (0..7) to skb->priority (15..8) i,e
> >
> > skb->priority = 15 - vlan_TCI;
> 
> The priority should still start at 0. You don't want to create a 16-band
> queue just to have 8 bands unused.

say what?;-> Nothing has to start at 0. 16 priorities does not equate to
16 queues. 

cheers,
jamal