Re: [Bloat] lwn.net's tcp small queues vs wifi aggregation solved

[David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com>]

On 21/06/18 11:18 AM, Dave Taht wrote
> This is a case where inserting a teeny bit more latency to fill up the
> queue (ugh!), or a driver having some way to ask the probability of
> seeing more data in the
> next 10us, or... something like that, could help.

Hmmn, that sounds like a pattern seen in physical switching systems: 
someone with knowledge that another car is coming (especially if it's  
unexpected) waves a flag at the dispatcher to warn them to leave space 
and avoid a nasty ka-thump and the extra strain on the couplers (;-))

--dave


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