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Re: SFQ: Reordering?

To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SFQ: Reordering?
From: Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:14:47 +0100
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Patrick McHardy wrote:

It would be interesting to see this in real-life, when a single flow
is hashed to multiple buckets (it can be even more than two) and
each bucket has some packets queued, the result should look pretty
chaotic.

It certainly hurts latency if used for ingress shaping, perturb nearly always makes the sender backoff and then burst.

Andy.

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