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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Asim Shankar <asimshankar@gmail.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SFQ: Reordering?
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 01:19:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427BFB72.7080407@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050506230203.GI28419@postel.suug.ch>

Thomas Graf wrote:
> We can maintain a second hash table and switch a pointer over to the
> new table but keep on dequeueing from the old one until it is empty.
> Anyways, any such behaviour should be made optional via a rtnetlink
> flag.

This also introduces unfairness. Packets of a flow could be only in
the new table while we're still working on the active table.
A proper solution to avoid reordering shouldn't be optional IMO,
perturbation is already optional.

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-06 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-06 21:53 SFQ: Reordering? Asim Shankar
2005-05-06 22:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-06 22:46   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-06 23:02     ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-06 23:19       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-05-07  0:58         ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-07  1:28           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-08 11:51             ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-08 16:03               ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-08 18:33                 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-09 23:14             ` Andy Furniss

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