On 05/10/2011 02:30 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> I have the following skeleton of classes ("a" is the number of my
> eth0 device in tcdevices):
> 
> a:13, priority:2, guaranteed speed 320kbit to 320kbit - Main class
> for outgoing - to my ISP1 - traffic (much lower speeds than the rest
> of my nets: 40KB/s out, 1200KB/s in - that is KBytes - as in 1024
> bytes, not kbits)! a:13:14, priority 2, guaranteed speed 120kbit to
> full (40KB/s), dmax 50ms, umax 1500b  - VOIP traffic routed outside 
> a:13:15, priority 3, guaranteed speed 80kbit to full, dmax ??, umax 
> 1500b - VPN 1 traffic going out a:13:16, priority 4, guaranteed speed
> 80kbit to full, dmax ??, umax 1500b - VPN 2 traffic going out 
> a:13:17, priority 5, guaranteed speed 40kbit to full, dmax ??, umax 
> 1500b - other unclassified traffic going out a:18 ... (other internal
> GBit traffic)
> 
> My question is - I have read the superbly put section on HFSC in the
>  complex traffic shaping article 
> (http://shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm), which deciphers the "HFSC
>  Scheduling with Linux" article //pretty well (thanks Tom!),

You're welcome.

> and spend an hour calculating the subclasses' dmax times (yes, I
> managed to do it at the end, I think) following the example in that
> article.
> 
> What I am not entirely certain is this - can I use more than one
> class on which to "boost" the dmax values as I did with the VOIP
> class (13:14) above - on class 13:15 for example - and dump all the
> excesses from both classes on the remaining "leaves" - classes 16 and
> 17? I know their dmax values could be in their hundreds of
> milliseconds, but I am prepared to take that hit.

I don't know. I guess that you will have to experiment and see. Please
let us know what you learn, so I can update the Complex TC doc with your
findings.

-Tom
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