From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davem@sunset.davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:29:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061108162955.GA4364@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163001318.3138.346.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:55:18PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I wonder if it's an option to use low priority QoS fields for these acks
> (heck I don't even know if ACKs have such fields in their packet) so
> that they can get dropped if there are more packets then there is
> bandwidth ....
Is it proven that the number of ACKs actually cause bandwidth problems?
I found Volanomark to exercise the scheduler more than anything else,
so maybe the slowdown, while triggered by an increased number of ACKs,
is caused by something else entirely.
Olaf
--
Walks like a duck. Quacks like a duck. Must be a chicken.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-07 18:32 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown Tim Chen
2006-11-07 20:45 ` David Miller
2006-11-07 21:50 ` John Heffner
2006-11-07 22:22 ` David Miller
2006-11-07 22:29 ` John Heffner
2006-11-08 10:07 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-11-08 15:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 16:29 ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2006-11-08 18:38 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 19:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 22:10 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:07 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-08 22:32 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-09 9:21 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-09 1:08 ` Rick Jones
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