[LARTC] ESFQ?

[Justin Schoeman]

Ouch... Is there any other way to do host-based fair sharing (well, 
other than actually classifying each host :-( )?

Thanks,
-justin


Jonathan Day wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, ESFQ for Linux is
> essentially dead. There's a patchset - QNet - which
> does port ESFQ to the 2.6.8/2.6.9 kernels, but ESFQ is
> not split out, so it looks like an all-or-nothing
> deal.
> 
> http://kem.p.lodz.pl/~peter/qnet/
> 
> I don't know if QNet is still being maintained - the
> last update on the page refers to October 2004 - and
> there's nothing to indicate how well the forward ports
> actually work in practice.
> 
> A search using Google shows only older ESFQ versions
> (one for 2.6.0-test11, for example) but nothing newer.
> 
> There was one posting about ESFQ to the kernel
> developers mailing list, but I couldn't see any
> follow-ups to it. Nor does it appear to be in Andrew
> Morton's patchset (an excellent indicator of interest
> level and the probability of ending up in the official
> kernel).
> 
> Unfortunately, this seems to be fairly common in Linux
> QoS - too many one-man projects and too few resources
> too keep them going.
> 
> --- Justin Schoeman <justin@expertron.co.za> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi again,
>>
>>I was just looking around for ESFQ sources, and I
>>see that the main site 
>>is down, and only has kernel 2.6.4 patches.
>>
>>Is ESFQ maintained?  If so, where can I find patches
>>for 2.6.10?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-justin
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