On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Jiri Kosina <ji...@kernel.org> wrote: > BTW, I've started to actually work on fixing this, and I've noticed that > TBF behavior actually violates what's stated in pfifo_fast manpage: > > ========== > Whenever an interface is created, the pfifo_fast qdisc is > automatically used as a queue. If another qdisc is > attached, it preempts the default pfifo_fast, which automatically > returns to function when an existing qdisc is detached. > > In this sense this qdisc is magic, and unlike other qdiscs. > ==========
It is out of date, now default qdisc can be set to any other qdisc via /proc. Also, probably due to historical reasons, we don't have a unified default default qdisc, some uses bfifo, some uses pfifo, we may break some existing script if we change that.
