igb and ALTQ in 9.1-rc3

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 11 07:58:55 UTC 2012


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:31:19PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote:
J> UH, maybe asking the owner of the driver would help :)
J> 
J> ... and no, I've never been aware of doing anything to stop supporting altq
J> so you wouldn't see any commits. If there's something in the altq code or
J> support (which I have nothing to do with) that caused this no-one informed
J> me.

Switching from if_start to if_transmit effectively disables ALTQ support.

AFAIR, there is some magic implemented in other drivers that makes them
modern (that means using if_transmit), but still capable to switch to queueing
mode if SIOCADDALTQ was casted upon them.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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