From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
To: dccp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] [DCCP]: Introduce two new socket options
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:49:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609221849.10494@strip-the-willow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609221430.14555.ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Quoting Eddie Kohler:
| > Why burden the application programmer to handcode an estimation of the average each
| > time? I can not see a justification for this, certainly not for CCIDs which
| > are intended to be used with (on average) fixed packet sizes.
| >
| > I think that a priority is to keep the user programming interface as simple as
| > possible -- like UDP's interface, as stated in RFC 4340.
|
| But if DCCP_SOCKOPT_TX_PACKET_SIZE defaults to the MSS, which the drafts
| explicitly allow, then there's no burden on the application programmer.
This is a good input and should be related to patch 6/7 in which the default setting is
the standard size packet of 256 bytes; so maybe we should use MSS (or an estimate of it) there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-22 2:30 [PATCH 5/7] [DCCP]: Introduce two new socket options Ian McDonald
2006-09-22 2:30 ` Ian McDonald
2006-09-22 10:37 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-09-22 10:37 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-09-22 16:56 ` Eddie Kohler
2006-09-22 16:56 ` Eddie Kohler
2006-09-22 17:28 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-09-22 17:35 ` Eddie Kohler
2006-09-22 17:49 ` Gerrit Renker [this message]
2006-11-16 13:57 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-11-16 14:07 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-11-16 14:09 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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