Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261469AbVBWL7X (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:59:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261471AbVBWL7X (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:59:23 -0500 Received: from mail.olografix.org ([195.32.69.44]:23243 "EHLO mail.olografix.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261469AbVBWL7R (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:59:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:58:46 +0100 From: "Angelo Dell'Aera" To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: mlists@danielinux.net, "David S. Miller" , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carlo Caini , Rosario Firrincieli Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP-Hybla proposal Message-ID: <20050223125846.674b6175@alnitak.darkstar.net> In-Reply-To: <20050222094219.0a8efbe1@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200502221534.42948.mlists@danielinux.net> <20050222094219.0a8efbe1@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Organization: Antifork Research, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) 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: 1408 Lines: 41 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:42:19 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Probably the best long term solution is to make the protocol choice > be a property of the destination cache [..] > The protocol choices are mutually exclusive, if you walk through the code > (or do experiments), you find that that only one gets used. As part of the > longer term plan, I would like to: > - have one sysctl > - choice by route and destination > - union for fields in control block I think it should be nice if we substitute in the struct tcp_opt all the structs related to the congestion control algorithms with a more generic one which could be initialized when the connection is open by reading just one sysctl which defines the algorithm to be used. This could allow later even a user-space application to set the congestion control it desires to use. > Is there interest in setting up a semi official "-tcp" tree to hold these? > because it might not be of wide interest or stability to be ready for mainline > kernel. I perfectly agree. -- Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' Antifork Research, Inc. http://buffer.antifork.org Metro Olografix - 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/