Re: Suggestion for /proc/net/dev: Additional field "Bandwidth"

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:54:02 +0000 (GMT)


> for packet scheduling? for realtime protocols it might be quite handy to
> know actually how long a packet needs to be shoven out of the
> transmitter. not thinking of half duplex ethernet, of course.

Packet scheduling appears to work fine. The kernel gets told how to do
the bandwidth allocations by user space, and again doesnt need to know

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