[3481] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jun 25 06:35:38 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: mike@lserv.conexio.co.za (Mike Kilburn)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:51:23 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@cymru.net, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0uYHcU-000DkhC@freya.yggdrasil.com> from "Mike Kilburn" at Jun 24, 96 09:30:36 pm
> > this to its latency. Frames exceeding the latency boundary are dropped. Its
>
> I dont quite understand this latency timer. Are you just keeping a timer
> of how long the frame has been in the queue and dropping it when its
> "old"?
Dropping a frame when its been delayed by other frames for too long (frames
may get pushed back so far by a higher priority frame). It simulates a
queue length on the device
Alan
