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From: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
To: bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: QoS for system critical packets on wireless
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:48:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E02A97D.8010007@freedesktop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim7M52YcJKo6w34sMO7fYpp44OayA@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/22/2011 11:17 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
> The biggest fallout of the diffserv work I was trying was observing
> that most packets fell into one of 3 buckets:
>
> 1) System control and 'MICE' are<  less than 1% of all packets. Mice
> includes a bunch of messages like ARP, NTP, UDP, and most of the icmp6
> portion of the stack, in what I'm doing currently. Mice are
> desperately needed for the network to continue to function.

I'd not use this term: please call it something else.

Van and Kathy have talked about HTTP "mice" and "elephant" TCP flows for 
a long time, and you'll terminally confuse everyone if you call these 
items "mice".

                 - Jim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22 15:17 Dave Taht
2011-06-22 22:12 ` [Babel-users] " Juliusz Chroboczek
2011-06-23 15:50   ` Dave Taht
2011-06-24 12:52     ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2011-06-24 14:07       ` Dave Taht
2011-06-23  2:48 ` Jim Gettys [this message]
2011-06-23  3:00   ` Dave Taht
2011-06-23 11:35     ` Jim Gettys
2011-06-23 12:32       ` Dave Taht
2011-06-23 17:23     ` Rick Jones
2011-06-23 18:38       ` Justin McCann
2011-06-26 13:51         ` Dave Taht

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