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Subject: [Bloat] benefits of ack filtering
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Recently Ryan Mounce added ack filtering cabilities to the cake qdisc.

The benefits were pretty impressive at a 50x1 Down/Up ratio:

http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/ack_filtering/

And quite noticeable at 16x1 ratios as well.

I'd rather like to have a compelling list of reasons why not to do
this! And ways to do it better, if not. The relevant code is hovering
at:

https://github.com/dtaht/sch_cake/blob/cobalt/sch_cake.c#L902

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