Annotation of wikisrc/projects/project/altq.mdwn, revision 1.3
1.1 christos 1: [[!template id=project
2:
3: title="ALTQ Refactoring and NPF Integration"
4:
5: contact="""
6: [tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org)
7: """
8:
9: mentors="""
10: [Christos Zoulas](mailto:christos@NetBSD.org)
11: """
12:
13: category="kernel"
14: difficulty="medium"
15: duration="2-3 months"
16:
17: description="""
18: [ALTQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTQ) (ALTernate Queueing) is
19: an optional network packet scheduler for BSD systems. It provides various
20: queueing disciplines and other quality of service (QoS) related
21: components required to control resource usage.
22:
1.3 ! maxv 23: It is currently integrated in
1.2 leot 24: [[!template id=man name="pf" section="4"]]
1.3 ! maxv 25: .
1.1 christos 26:
27: Unfortunately it was written a long time ago and it suffers from a lot
28: of code duplication, dangerous code practices and can use improvements
29: both in the API and implementation. After these problems have been addressed
30: it should be integrated with
1.2 leot 31: [[!template id=man name="npf" section="4"]]
1.3 ! maxv 32: .
1.1 christos 33:
34: """
35: ]]
36:
37: [[!tag gsoc]]
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