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From: Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] tail and head drop qdiscs
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:21:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F8EAD5.1080706@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106170939.10019.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>

vincent perrier wrote:
>>vincent perrier wrote:
>>
>>>I think that there are no qdiscs that permit to drop the oldest
>>>frame of a queue when this queue is full ...
> 
> 
>>What sort of thing do you want this for?
>>...
>>Andy.
>>
> 
> 
> Very low rate (satellite links for example) and strict priority can
> lead to messages waiting for a chance to be transmitted and getting
> old in low prio queues as higher priority messages take all the
> bandwidth. 
> Vincent.  

Ahh - if the messages established tcp then I don't think it will make 
any difference.

If the messages are udp then I suppose it could help a bit - depends 
what you mean by messages.

Andy.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19 21:42 [LARTC] tail and head drop qdiscs vincent perrier
2005-01-25 12:32 ` Andy Furniss
2005-01-25 19:41 ` vincent perrier
2005-01-27 13:21 ` Andy Furniss [this message]

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