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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: Kathleen Nichols <nichols@pollere.com>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] lwn.net's tcp small queues vs wifi aggregation solved
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:12:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C03B3E60-FD68-46BC-930F-143879904767@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dbb8dc8-bec6-8252-c063-ff0ba5fd7c1a@pollere.com>

> On 22 Jun, 2018, at 5:01 pm, Kathleen Nichols <nichols@pollere.com> wrote:
> 
> Your original note was looking for a way
> for finding out if the probability of seeing more data in the next 10us
> was sufficiently large to delay "a teeny bit" so that would be the
> problem statement.

I would instead frame the problem as "how can we get hardware to incorporate extra packets, which arrive between the request and grant phases of the MAC, into the same TXOP?"  Then we no longer need to think probabilistically, or induce unnecessary delay in the case that no further packets arrive.

 - Jonathan Morton


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-22 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-21  4:58 Dave Taht
2018-06-21  9:22 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-06-21 12:55   ` Eric Dumazet
2018-06-21 15:18     ` Dave Taht
2018-06-21 15:31       ` Caleb Cushing
2018-06-21 15:46         ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-06-21 17:41           ` Caleb Cushing
2018-06-21 15:50         ` Dave Taht
2018-06-21 16:29       ` David Collier-Brown
2018-06-21 16:54         ` Jonathan Morton
2018-06-21 16:43       ` Kathleen Nichols
2018-06-21 19:17         ` Dave Taht
2018-06-21 19:41           ` Sebastian Moeller
2018-06-21 19:51             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-06-21 19:54             ` Dave Taht
2018-06-21 20:11               ` Sebastian Moeller
2018-06-22 14:01           ` Kathleen Nichols
2018-06-22 14:12             ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2018-06-22 14:49               ` Michael Richardson
2018-06-22 15:02                 ` Jonathan Morton
2018-06-22 21:55                   ` Michael Richardson
2018-06-25 10:38                     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-06-25 23:54                       ` Jim Gettys
2018-06-26  0:07                         ` Jonathan Morton
2018-06-26  0:21                           ` David Lang
2018-06-26  0:36                             ` Simon Barber
2018-06-26  0:44                               ` Jonathan Morton
2018-06-26  0:52                                 ` Jim Gettys
2018-06-26  0:56                                 ` David Lang
2018-06-26 11:16                                   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-06-26  1:27                                 ` Dave Taht
2018-06-26  3:30                                   ` Simon Barber

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