Re: [PATCH] TCP-Hybla proposal

Angelo Dell'Aera
2005-02-23T11:59:23Z

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:42:19 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> Probably the best long term solution is to make the protocol choice
> be a property of the destination cache

[..]
> The protocol choices are mutually exclusive, if you walk through the code
> (or do experiments), you find that that only one gets used. As part of the
> longer term plan, I would like to:
> - have one sysctl
> - choice by route and destination
> - union for fields in control block

I think it should be nice if we substitute in the struct tcp_opt all the structs
related to the congestion control algorithms with a more generic one which could
be initialized when the connection is open by reading just one sysctl which defines
the algorithm to be used. This could allow later even a user-space application to
set the congestion control it desires to use.

> Is there interest in setting up a semi official "-tcp" tree to hold these?
> because it might not be of wide interest or stability to be ready for mainline
> kernel.

I perfectly agree.

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