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Re: [RFC] TCP Vegas for 2.6

To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TCP Vegas for 2.6
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:36:46 +0100
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, linux-net <linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> CONFIG options are of no use vendors who need to ship binary kernels.

I can well see a vendor trading scalability for experimental non standard TCP 
algorithms that tend to be disabled anyways.

Or allocating separately if you prefer that. In theory it may be even
possible to change the slab cache size at runtime, but that could get tricky.

-Andi

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