Re: [PATCH net-next] net, sched: add clsact qdisc

On 16-01-07 06:58 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

On 01/07/2016 11:09 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

Idea was that this is done before we pick txq as stated. F.e., could also
be that we end up not having enqueue handler, thus moving this further down
(not sure if there's a good place?), might make it all more scattered resp.
complex to cover all parts.

From a cursory glance (Will comment a lot more later, definetely bt netdev11 time):
I like the idea - actually i think that this is where John was heading
initially. Both efforts complement each other.
This scheme could be used to compensate for the queue lock avoidance
and do a direct txmit (and let the hardware do the scheduling).
The classid selection could clearly be done at this early stage.
And a few of the standard skb metadatum could be used to map to
hardware offloading.

cheers,
jamal