Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261232AbVBVSP6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:15:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261215AbVBVSP6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:15:58 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:20926 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261197AbVBVSPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:15:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:14:47 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: John Heffner Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, mlists@danielinux.net, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ccaini@deis.unibo.it, rfirrincieli@arces.unibo.it Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP-Hybla proposal Message-Id: <20050222101447.68a02c12.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: <200502221534.42948.mlists@danielinux.net> <20050222094219.0a8efbe1@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 16 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:03:11 -0500 (EST) John Heffner wrote: > An idea I've been toying with for a while now is completely abstracting > congestion control. Then you could have congestion control loadable > modules, which would avoid this mess of experimental algorithms inside the > main-line kernel. If done right, they might be able to work seamlessly > with SCTP, too. The tricky part is making sure the interface is complete > enough. The symbols exported to allow this would need to be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/