From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP changes for 2.6.18
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:13:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060606131353.1e55f384@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060606.122924.99202474.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:46:55 -0700
>
> > On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:58:59 -0700 (PDT)
> > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, it seems we now have at least 3 instances "VEGAS + stuff"
> > > and thus the core vegas logic is duplicated that many times.
> > > Would be nice to have some core vegas infrastructure in the
> > > generic congestion avoidance layer at some point.
> >
> > Agreed, and the vegas stuff needs some work as well. It should
> > have more smoothing like Westwood+
>
> And that Westwood+ "smoothing" is the same sample smoothing algorithm
> used in other parts of the generic TCP input processing, for example
> in functions such as tcp_rtt_estimator() :-)
We could even support different (or smarter) smoothing functions???
The vegas stuff needs to be smarter that's for sure. Time to go catch up
on my reading.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-06 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-05 18:03 [PATCH] TCP changes for 2.6.18 Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-05 19:55 ` [PATCH] TCP: removal of unused label Francois Romieu
2006-06-05 23:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-05 23:03 ` David Miller
2006-06-05 23:58 ` [PATCH] TCP changes for 2.6.18 David Miller
2006-06-06 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-06 19:29 ` David Miller
2006-06-06 20:13 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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