Re: txqueuelen has wrong units; should be time

Chris Friesen
2011-03-02T20:26:33Z

On 03/01/2011 09:10 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> For the case when we're ourselves originating the traffic (for instance to
> a wifi card with varying speed and jitter due to retransmits on the wifi
> layer), I think it's taking the too easy way out to use the same
> mechanisms (dropping packets or marking ECN for our own originated packets
> seems really weird), here we should be able to pushback information to the
> applications somehow and do prioritization between flows since we're
> sitting on all information ourselves including the application.

Doesn't the socket tx buffer give all the app pushback necessary?
(Assuming it's set to a sane value.)

We should certainly do prioritization between flows. Perhaps if no
other information is available the scheduler priority could be used?

Chris

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Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
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