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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Niclas Hedam <nhed@itu.dk>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: sched: Add support for packet bursting.
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:44:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877diekybt.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532A8EEC-59FD-42F2-8568-4C649677B4B0@itu.dk>

Niclas Hedam <nhed@itu.dk> writes:

> From 71843907bdb9cdc4e24358f0c16a8778f2762dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Niclas Hedam <nhed@itu.dk>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:37:18 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] net: sched: Add support for packet bursting.

Something went wrong with the formatting here.

> This commit implements packet bursting in the NetEm scheduler.
> This allows system administrators to hold back outgoing
> packets and release them at a multiple of a time quantum.
> This feature can be used to prevent timing attacks caused
> by network latency.

How is this bursting feature different from the existing slot-based
mechanism?

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-28 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-28 11:25 [PATCH v2] net: sched: Add support for packet bursting Niclas Hedam
2021-06-28 11:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2021-06-28 11:57   ` Niclas Hedam
2021-06-28 12:21     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-06-28 13:24       ` Niclas Hedam
2021-06-29 14:35         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-06-29 15:26         ` Dave Taht
2021-06-28 12:08   ` [PATCH v3] " Niclas Hedam
2021-06-28 15:27     ` Eric Dumazet
2021-06-28 15:38       ` Niclas Hedam

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