On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:54:08PM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

If I get it right peek + dequeue should do all current dequeue logic
plus additionally write down the child qdisc or skb (leaves) info,
plus, probably, some ifs btw., which looks like a bit of overhead,
if we consider requeuing as something exceptional. Unless we don't -
then of course something like this could be useful.

I don't see the overhead in writing down something that we alrady
have.  In any case, do you have an alternative solution to the
current problem that qdisc_run looks at an arbitrary queue's
status to decide whether it should process a qdisc that empties
into n queues?

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