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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: root@danielinux.net
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Carlo Caini <ccaini@deis.unibo.it>,
	Rosario Firrincieli <rfirrincieli@arces.unibo.it>,
	Giovanni Pau <gpau@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: TCP Pacing
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:21:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060914102155.3a6552db@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609131018.33231.root@danielinux.net>

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:18:31 +0200
Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:41, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Pacing in itself isn't a bad idea, but:
> <cut>
> > * Since it is most useful over long delay links, maybe it should be a 
> route parameter.
>

Look into rtnetlink and how we keep track of route metrics, and
add a new per route state variable. Need to update iproute2 (ip command)
as well.

> What does this mean? Should I move the sysctl switch elsewhere?
> 
> A new (cleaner) patch follows.
> Thanks to you all for your attention & advices.
> 
> Signed-off by: Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net>

You may also want into look into high resolution timer (hrtimer),
the resolution doesn't get finer than HZ without using -rt patches.
But the ktime interface is cleaner than the normal timer math.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12 17:58 TCP Pacing Daniele Lacamera
2006-09-12 18:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-09-12 21:26 ` Ian McDonald
2006-09-13  8:18   ` Daniele Lacamera
2006-09-13 15:46     ` Daniele Lacamera
2006-09-16  0:41       ` Xiaoliang (David) Wei
2006-09-19 11:31         ` Daniele Lacamera
2006-09-13 18:30     ` Ian McDonald
2006-09-13  3:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-13  8:18   ` Daniele Lacamera
2006-09-14  1:21     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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