LARTC - Mar 2004 - Need Clarification on TBF + (PRIO+SFQ)

Hi All,

I need help to understand the proper order to create qdiscs. I''m trying
to
do the following:

1. Use the TBF to slow a 100mb link to 3mb
2. Use PRIO to prioritize the traffic
3. Use SFQ to hand out bandwidth to each PRIO class fairly

Here''s my question. What order should the qdiscs be in? For example:

ROOT->TBF->PRIO[1,2,3]->SFQ or ROOT->PRIO[1,2,3]->SFQ->TBF

Please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I''m a total newbie ;-).

Thanks in advance,
Gerry

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Gerry Weaver wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need help to understand the proper order to create qdiscs. I''m
trying to
> do the following:
> 
> 1. Use the TBF to slow a 100mb link to 3mb
Check the "UNITS" section of the tc manual to make sure you
don''t get
"mbit" confused with "mbps". In tc unit nomenclature,
"kb" and "mb"
refer to quantities rather than bandwidths.
> 2. Use PRIO to prioritize the traffic
> 3. Use SFQ to hand out bandwidth to each PRIO class fairly
> 
> Here''s my question. What order should the qdiscs be in? For
example:
> 
> ROOT->TBF->PRIO[1,2,3]->SFQ or
ROOT->PRIO[1,2,3]->SFQ->TBF
> 
Well, the first cannot work because TBF is a classless discipline, and
as such cannot have child qdiscs. The second cannot work because sfq is
also classless (and even if it were, I don''t think that configuration
would do what you want.

Try htb. I''m going to assume you mean "mbit"; you''ll
want to tweak other
parameters, too. This (untested) example won''t behave exactly like
PRIO,
but I think you could modify it to do so by changing each class'' rate
to
0mbit (remember that''s the guaranteed rate) and let them take their
shares of the bandwidth solely based on prio. htb allows for what are
usually more elegant solutions to bandwidth prioritization, though, so
what I''ve written below allows the three classes to share bandwidth
disproportionately when they all have packets waiting.

tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle htb
  tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 3mbit
  tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 1500kbit ceil \
3mbit prio 1
    tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:10 handle 10: sfq perturb 10
  tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:20 htb rate 1000kbit ceil \
3mbit prio 2
    tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:20 handle 20: sfq perturb 10
  tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:30 htb rate 500kbit ceil \
3mbit prio 3
    tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:30 handle 30: sfq perturb 10

(then write some filters attached to 1: to pass packets to 1:10, 1:20,
and 1:30)

-Corey
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