From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20061027.141749.41635827.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20061027152157.GB4632@c3po.0xdef.net> <45422A31.7070806@osdl.org> <20061027103016.3e8514d7@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hagen@jauu.net, jheffner@psc.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:30663 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752458AbWJ0VRs (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:17:48 -0400 To: shemminger@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20061027103016.3e8514d7@freekitty> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:30:16 -0700 > My proposed method restricting TCP choices to fair algorithms. > This a net wide, not system wide issue, it should not be done > by kernel policy choice (capability), but by a build choice. I think this sucks even worse than the current situation. How difficult is it to understand that an administrator might like to be able to build in and experiment with some congestion control algorithms, yet still be able to keep his normal users from using them?