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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] NET: Accurate packet scheduling for ATM/ADSL
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:35:36 -0700
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:40:04AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> The Linux traffic's control engine inaccurately calculates
> transmission times for packets sent over ADSL links.  For some
> packet sizes the error rises to over 50%.  This occurs because ADSL
> uses ATM as its link layer transport, and ATM transmits packets in
> fixed sized 53 byte cells.

What if AAL5 is used?  The cell-alignment math is going to be wrong
there surely?