On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 03:43:55PM +0530, Nishanth Devarajan wrote: > net/sched: add skbprio scheduer > > Skbprio (SKB Priority Queue) is a queueing discipline that prioritizes packets > according to their skb->priority field. Under congestion, already-enqueued > lower > priority packets will be dropped to make space available for higher priority > packets. Skbprio was conceived as a solution for denial-of-service defenses > that > need to route packets with different priorities as a means to overcome DoS > attacks.
Why can't we implement this as a new flag for sch_prio.c? I don't see why this duplication is needed, especially because it will only be "slower" (as in, it will do more work) when qdisc is already full and dropping packets anyway. Marcelo
