From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jheffner@psc.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:48:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45422A31.7070806@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061027152157.GB4632@c3po.0xdef.net>
Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> * Stephen Hemminger | 2006-10-27 07:41:02 [-0700]:
>
>
>> Please no, it makes the socket option useless.
>>
>
> Technical no, in the sense of usability for everybody yes. You are right
> Stephen, as a programmer I understand you complete!
>
> But on the other side: We know for sure that this IS a problem if we allow
> everybody to "prefer his socket".
>
> In my opinion we should prefer fairness before usability! As John Heffner
> introduce, we can introduce a ranking system for congestion control algorithms -
> but this solution seems a little bit oversized and maybe can't be complete
> guaranteed (complex interaction between the protocols in different
> environment and so on, you know).
>
> HGN
>
>
If there is a dangerous choice, then it should be removed. Otherwise I can't
see the problem. It is a bigger risk to have to escalate the privileges
of an application
just to allow it to use something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 18:08 [RFC] tcp: setsockopt congestion control autoload Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-25 23:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 5:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-26 14:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 14:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-26 15:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-26 17:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-10-26 20:55 ` David Miller
2006-10-26 17:29 ` John Heffner
2006-10-26 20:57 ` David Miller
2006-10-26 22:44 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-26 22:53 ` John Heffner
2006-10-26 23:52 ` [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-26 23:59 ` Ian McDonald
2006-10-27 0:07 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 0:20 ` Ian McDonald
2006-10-27 0:02 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 10:43 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-27 14:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 15:21 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2006-10-27 15:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-10-27 17:30 ` [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 17:43 ` John Heffner
2006-10-27 17:59 ` [PATCH] tcp: allow restricting congestion control choices Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:17 ` [PATCH] tcp: don't allow unfair congestion control to be built without warning David Miller
2006-10-27 21:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:37 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 22:12 ` David Miller
2006-10-27 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 22:24 ` David Miller
2006-10-28 0:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-28 3:10 ` [RFC] tcp: available congetsion control Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 21:22 ` [PATCH] Check if user has CAP_NET_ADMIN to change congestion control algorithm David Miller
2006-10-27 1:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 18:14 ` [PATCH] tcp: setsockopt congestion control autoload Stephen Hemminger
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