[altq 756] Re: question on WFQ

[Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Narasimha Swamy wrote:
> > I was looking into WFQ implementation of ALTQ. Weight to each queue
> > serviced by WFQ is taken as % of bandwidth. And quota for each queue is
> > calculated using the formula : 512 * weight / 100. 
> > Can anybody please explain the idea of taking it % of 512 bytes rather
> > than link bandwidth. what is rational for using 512. 

There isn't much theory behind it; a heuristic value just to give a
quota in the same order of the average packet size.

-Kenjiro