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Subject: Re: [Bloat] Relentless congestion control for testing purposes
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:33 PM Bob McMahon <bob.mcmahon@broadcom.com> wrote:
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> hmm, this looks interesting to a test & measurement guy. Can it be done with a setsockopt? I might want to add this as an iperf2 option, particularly if it's broadly available,


I would be happy to submit it as one or two upstream patches --
perhaps one to implement
the basic "ignore_holes" + setsockopt(), and another mechanism (if
there isn't one
already) to override defaults sockopts on certain sockets.

I do think we need more readily available testing tool,

cheers
luigi