[LARTC] new perflow rate control queue

[Patrick McHardy]

Wang Jian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of my customer needs per flow rate control, so I write one.
> 
> The code I post here is not finished, but it seems to work as expected.
> 
> The kernel patch is agains kernel 2.6.11, the iproute2 patch is against
> iproute2-2.6.11-050314. 
> 
> I write the code in a hurry to meet deadline. There are many other things
> to do ahead for me. The code is written in 2 days (including read other
> queue's code) and tested for a while to find obvious mistake. Don't be
> suprised when you find many many bugs.

It looks quite clean, but couldn't the same be achieved with just
providing per-flow fairness and leaving the rate-limiting to an
upper qdisc like HTB or HFSC?

Regards
Patrick