diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 6eab63363e59..e5ae0c50fa9c 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -683,13 +683,19 @@ struct psched_ratecfg {
 	u64	rate_bytes_ps; /* bytes per second */
 	u32	mult;
 	u16	overhead;
+	u8	linklayer;
 	u8	shift;
 };
 
 static inline u64 psched_l2t_ns(const struct psched_ratecfg *r,
 				unsigned int len)
 {
-	return ((u64)(len + r->overhead) * r->mult) >> r->shift;
+	len += r->overhead;
+
+	if (unlikely(r->linklayer == TC_LINKLAYER_ATM))
+		return ((u64)(DIV_ROUND_UP(len,48)*53) * r->mult) >> r->shift;
+
+	return ((u64)len * r->mult) >> r->shift;
 }
 
 extern void psched_ratecfg_precompute(struct psched_ratecfg *r, const struct tc_ratespec *conf);
@@ -700,6 +706,7 @@ static inline void psched_ratecfg_getrate(struct tc_ratespec *res,
 	memset(res, 0, sizeof(*res));
 	res->rate = r->rate_bytes_ps;
 	res->overhead = r->overhead;
+	res->linklayer = (r->linklayer & TC_LINKLAYER_MASK);
 }
 
 #endif
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h
index dbd71b0c7d8c..09d62b9228ff 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h
@@ -73,9 +73,17 @@ struct tc_estimator {
 #define TC_H_ROOT	(0xFFFFFFFFU)
 #define TC_H_INGRESS    (0xFFFFFFF1U)
 
+/* Need to corrospond to iproute2 tc/tc_core.h "enum link_layer" */
+enum tc_link_layer {
+	TC_LINKLAYER_UNAWARE, /* Indicate unaware old iproute2 util */
+	TC_LINKLAYER_ETHERNET,
+	TC_LINKLAYER_ATM,
+};
+#define TC_LINKLAYER_MASK 0x0F /* limit use to lower 4 bits */
+
 struct tc_ratespec {
 	unsigned char	cell_log;
-	unsigned char	__reserved;
+	__u8		linklayer; /* lower 4 bits */
 	unsigned short	overhead;
 	short		cell_align;
 	unsigned short	mpu;
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 281c1bded1f6..51b968d3febb 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -285,6 +285,45 @@ static struct Qdisc_ops *qdisc_lookup_ops(struct nlattr *kind)
 	return q;
 }
 
+/* The linklayer setting were not transferred from iproute2, in older
+ * versions, and the rate tables lookup systems have been dropped in
+ * the kernel. To keep backward compatible with older iproute2 tc
+ * utils, we detect the linklayer setting by detecting if the rate
+ * table were modified.
+ *
+ * For linklayer ATM table entries, the rate table will be aligned to
+ * 48 bytes, thus some table entries will contain the same value.  The
+ * mpu (min packet unit) is also encoded into the old rate table, thus
+ * starting from the mpu, we find low and high table entries for
+ * mapping this cell.  If these entries contain the same value, when
+ * the rate tables have been modified for linklayer ATM.
+ *
+ * This is done by rounding mpu to the nearest 48 bytes cell/entry,
+ * and then roundup to the next cell, calc the table entry one below,
+ * and compare.
+ */
+static __u8 __detect_linklayer(struct tc_ratespec *r, __u32 *rtab)
+{
+	int low       = roundup(r->mpu, 48);
+	int high      = roundup(low+1, 48);
+	int cell_low  = low >> r->cell_log;
+	int cell_high = (high >> r->cell_log) - 1;
+
+	/* rtab is too inaccurate at rates > 100Mbit/s */
+	if ((r->rate > (100000000/8)) || (rtab[0] == 0)) {
+		pr_debug("TC linklayer: Giving up ATM detection\n");
+		return TC_LINKLAYER_ETHERNET;
+	}
+
+	if ((cell_high > cell_low) && (cell_high < 256)
+	    && (rtab[cell_low] == rtab[cell_high])) {
+		pr_debug("TC linklayer: Detected ATM, low(%d)=high(%d)=%u\n",
+			 cell_low, cell_high, rtab[cell_high]);
+		return TC_LINKLAYER_ATM;
+	}
+	return TC_LINKLAYER_ETHERNET;
+}
+
 static struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_rtab_list;
 
 struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_get_rtab(struct tc_ratespec *r, struct nlattr *tab)
@@ -308,6 +347,8 @@ struct qdisc_rate_table *qdisc_get_rtab(struct tc_ratespec *r, struct nlattr *ta
 		rtab->rate = *r;
 		rtab->refcnt = 1;
 		memcpy(rtab->data, nla_data(tab), 1024);
+		if (r->linklayer == TC_LINKLAYER_UNAWARE)
+			r->linklayer = __detect_linklayer(r, rtab->data);
 		rtab->next = qdisc_rtab_list;
 		qdisc_rtab_list = rtab;
 	}
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index eeb8276d7a89..48be3d5c0d92 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ void psched_ratecfg_precompute(struct psched_ratecfg *r,
 	memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r));
 	r->overhead = conf->overhead;
 	r->rate_bytes_ps = conf->rate;
+	r->linklayer = (conf->linklayer & TC_LINKLAYER_MASK);
 	r->mult = 1;
 	/*
 	 * The deal here is to replace a divide by a reciprocal one
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_htb.c b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
index 45e751527dfc..c2178b15ca6e 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_htb.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_htb.c
@@ -1329,6 +1329,7 @@ static int htb_change_class(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 classid,
 	struct htb_sched *q = qdisc_priv(sch);
 	struct htb_class *cl = (struct htb_class *)*arg, *parent;
 	struct nlattr *opt = tca[TCA_OPTIONS];
+	struct qdisc_rate_table *rtab = NULL, *ctab = NULL;
 	struct nlattr *tb[TCA_HTB_MAX + 1];
 	struct tc_htb_opt *hopt;
 
@@ -1350,6 +1351,18 @@ static int htb_change_class(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 classid,
 	if (!hopt->rate.rate || !hopt->ceil.rate)
 		goto failure;
 
+	/* Keeping backward compatible with rate_table based iproute2 tc */
+	if (hopt->rate.linklayer == TC_LINKLAYER_UNAWARE) {
+		rtab = qdisc_get_rtab(&hopt->rate, tb[TCA_HTB_RTAB]);
+		if (rtab)
+			qdisc_put_rtab(rtab);
+	}
+	if (hopt->ceil.linklayer == TC_LINKLAYER_UNAWARE) {
+		ctab = qdisc_get_rtab(&hopt->ceil, tb[TCA_HTB_CTAB]);
+		if (ctab)
+			qdisc_put_rtab(ctab);
+	}
+
 	if (!cl) {		/* new class */
 		struct Qdisc *new_q;
 		int prio;