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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: UDP packets scheduling
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:55:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46007473.7070001@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.Mj0BY4rypcd66zFbzfAQxZCpUVk@ifi.uio.no>

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:52:51PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> Flow control must be turned off for some other reason.
>> That's your fundamental problem. Fix that. 
>>
>> Even if you get the rate right there can be many reasons why timing 
>> gets disrupted temporarily and to recover from any of this you need
>> working flow control.
> 
> How do you want to enable wire/fibre flow control, e.g., from Europe to USA?
> You are not guaranteed any hardware based flow control.
> 
> And as of software flow control, you need precise timing of UDP packets to
> keep desired packet rate. How to do it at speeds about 5.5Gbps, that is my
> question.

Why is it necessary to avoid bursting? There should be enough buffering 
along the chain to avoid packet loss with reasonable burst sizes.

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2007-03-20 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.CWur1AzeHpCwg8xikmKYIrHD+vg@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.XuXSOUdBq9+oYcuagtcjLic4XjE@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.Mj0BY4rypcd66zFbzfAQxZCpUVk@ifi.uio.no>
2007-03-20 23:55     ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-03-20  0:52 UDP packets scheduling Lukas Hejtmanek
2007-03-20  2:37 ` David Schwartz
2007-03-20 16:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-20 16:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-20 17:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-20 17:21   ` Lukas Hejtmanek

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