Re: ALTQ modifications proposal

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> writes:

> I think the *ability* to have more than one queueing discipline is important.

Agreed; it's critical to allow improvements and to allow NetBSD to be
useful as a research platform.

> Whether all (or most!) of the disciplines we already have should remain,
> though, is I think a different question.

Sure, but "let's drop them because we're migrating" is not a good
argument.

Perhaps Emmanuel can post a written design for the changes, so we can
understand how hard modifing existing disciplines is, new APIs, etc.