From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <redacted>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:23:00 -0700

I'm not sure I follow this.  DCB is a scheduling policy, but that
scheduling policy is in the hardware.  The configuration interface,
which is what this is, happens out of band of any scheduling policies in
the kernel.  It's very analogous to the wireless configuration layer for
mac80211 that uses generic netlink.

And I'm saying we should have a equivalent software scheduler in
the kernel that can implement this if the hardware offloaded version
isn't present.

It overlaps existing functionality to a certain extent, and there is
no real reason for that overlap to exist.  The question is which
(the existing facilities or the new one) subsumes which.