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Subject: Re: [RFC] TCP congestion schedulers
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 07:53, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> > I'm also not so religious anymore about retaining the existing
> > sysctl functionality to enable/disable ca algs.
> 
> I haven't looked over this patch completely, so I may well be saying something
> stupid, but if possible, please don't use the tcp/TCP prefix where you
> think this
> code can be used by other inet transport protocols, such as DCCP. 

Yes, that would be really nice. 

Also heres another thought: if we can have multiple sockets, destined to
the same receiver, to share the same congestion state. This is motivated
from the CM idea the MIT folks were preaching a few years ago - look at
RFC 3124 and the MIT website which had some crude linux code back then
as well as tons of papers. I think
that scheme may need to hook up to tc to work well.

cheers,
jamal