From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jheffner@psc.edu
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:22:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061107.142200.115911407.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4550FFA9.8040503@psc.edu>
From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:50:33 -0500
> The only stack I know of that does this currently is linux, and in doing
> so does not conform to the spec. ;) Sending to a BSD receiver will
> result in the same behavior, so the "right place" to fix this is on the
> sending side. (I know the issue of packet vs. byte counting has come up
> many times over the last 10 years or so, and many arguments have been
> made on either side... I don't mean this to be flame bait but it's clear
> what will happen in this scenario.)
John, you cannot change the N-million existing Linux systems
out there doing congestion control via byte counting. You
cannot do this no matter how much you wish it so :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1162924354.10806.172.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-11-07 20:45 ` 2.6.19-rc1: Volanomark slowdown David Miller
2006-11-07 21:50 ` John Heffner
2006-11-07 22:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-11-07 22:29 ` John Heffner
2006-11-08 10:07 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-11-08 15:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 16:29 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 18:38 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 19:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 22:10 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:07 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-08 23:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-08 22:32 ` Tim Chen
2006-11-09 9:21 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-08 22:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-09 1:08 ` Rick Jones
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