From: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: ACK and Packet Queues
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:35:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d577e56904080606356289c105@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Do Linux packet schedulers also queue and allow prioritization ACK responses?
I just spent the last hour googling for an answer to my question, and
I can't find one, and I thought I'd ask here, possibly someone who
understands the packet queuing code is subscribed.
I'm asking because I'm trying to find a good way to influence what
packets are sent to me over a slow link. I'm thinking along the lines
of mangling TOS on incoming AND outgoing packets of SomeService,
saying I want them to be Minimize-Delay, and having the ACK of the
incoming packets of SomeService be Minimize-Delay as well, so that
SomeService ACKs are sent before other ACKs, just like SomeService
normal outgoing packets would be.
Because I would be now Minimize-Delay-ing all incoming and outgoing
traffic of SomeServce, it would increase the chances of me getting
SomeService traffic over other traffic (or so I hope.)
This all depends, of course, if Linux's packet scheduler also
schedules ACKs (and allows me to prioritize them).
--
Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || diablod3@gmail.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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