Re: CBQ and all other qdiscs now REALLY completely documented (almost!)

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, bert hubert wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:14:10PM -0500, jamal wrote:
>
> AFAICT, the priomap maps skb->priority to band. So the translation is as
> follows:
>

yes ;->

> >
> > so do prio and pfifo_fast (as i am sure you are aware)
>
> Of course, but only CBQ (& HTB, by the way) can extract a classid directly
> from it, without a priomap. Devik is planning to learn HTB to extract a
> classid directly from the fwmark, to skip a layer of indirection.
>

I am not sure if this is such a nice hack. Whats wrong with with using the
fwmark classifier to select classes?

cheers,
jamal