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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp: setsockopt congestion control autoload
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:57:36 -0700 (PDT)
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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:29:26 -0400

> My reservation in doing this would be that as an administrator, I may 
> want to choose exactly what congestion control is available any any 
> given time.  The different congestion control algorithms are not 
> necessarily fair to each other.
> 
> If the modules are autoloaded, I could still enforce this by moving the 
> modules out of /lib/modules, but I think it's cleaner to do it by 
> loading/unloading modules as appropriate.

Fair enough, and for the folks doing tests of congestion control
algorithms they can run as root or whatever.