Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422698AbVLOLrk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:47:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422699AbVLOLrk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:47:40 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41873 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422698AbVLOLrj (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:47:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] TCP/IP Critical socket communication mechanism From: Arjan van de Ven To: James Courtier-Dutton Cc: Mitchell Blank Jr , Jesper Juhl , Sridhar Samudrala , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43A155AE.4050105@superbug.co.uk> References: <9a8748490512141216x7e25ca2cucb675f11f0c9d913@mail.gmail.com> <43A08546.8040708@superbug.co.uk> <20051215015456.GC23393@gaz.sfgoth.com> <43A155AE.4050105@superbug.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:47:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1134647248.16486.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 19 > > You are using the wrong hammer to crack your nut. > You should instead approach your problem of why the ARP entry gets lost. > For example, you could give as critical priority to your TCP session, > but that still won't cure your ARP problem. > I would suggest that the best way to cure your arp problem, is to > increase the time between arp cache refreshes. or turn it around entirely: all traffic is considered important unless... and have a bunch of non-critical sockets (like http requests) be marked non-critical. - 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/